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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Albania	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	3,085	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	3,065	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	3,047	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	3,038	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	3,026	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	3,014	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	2,998	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	2,979	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	2,957	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	2,934	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	2,915	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	2,900	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	2,892	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	2,888	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	2,882	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	2,876	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	2,868	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	2,863	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	2,861	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	2,854	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	2,842	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	2,825	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	2,799	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	2,787	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

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.

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