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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Romania	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	22,414	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	22,262	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	22,106	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	21,931	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	21,828	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	21,704	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	21,571	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	21,443	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	21,129	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	20,779	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	20,607	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	20,485	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	20,385	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	20,296	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	20,224	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	20,151	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	20,055	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	19,938	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	19,823	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	19,713	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	19,622	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	19,496	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	19,351	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	19,266	17,288

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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.