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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Ecuador	Iceland
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	12,268	277
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	12,446	281
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	12,629	285
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	12,827	288
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	13,074	289
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	13,368	293
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	13,661	296
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	13,915	304
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	14,133	311
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	14,352	319
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	14,569	319
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	14,786	318
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	15,002	319
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	15,218	321
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	15,433	324
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	15,647	327
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	15,860	331
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	16,072	335
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	16,282	343
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	16,489	353
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	16,693	361
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	16,894	366
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	17,093	372
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	17,288	380

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.