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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Moldova	India
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	4,244	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	4,199	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	4,154	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	4,108	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	4,059	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	4,013	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	3,966	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	3,919	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	3,873	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	3,829	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	3,788	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	3,748	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	3,709	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	3,671	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	3,633	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	3,595	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	3,558	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	3,522	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	3,485	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	3,448	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	3,412	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	3,376	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	3,339	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	3,570	1,349,060

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.

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

No separate list is published for Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.