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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Cuba	Burkina Faso	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	273	11,108	11,075	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	274	11,147	11,405	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	275	11,179	11,828	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	276	11,210	12,380	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	278	11,241	12,829	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	279	11,260	13,178	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	280	11,268	13,540	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	281	11,266	13,917	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	282	11,261	14,309	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	283	11,258	14,722	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	11,260	15,152	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	286	11,262	15,600	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,264	16,064	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,262	16,563	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,250	17,072	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,238	17,575	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,214	18,094	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,180	18,621	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,147	19,157	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,116	19,698	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,105	20,242	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,089	20,788	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,046	21,336	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,003	21,889	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.

All data sources

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

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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 Barbados, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.