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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosDominicaChileEcuador
2737015,14012,268
2747115,34012,446
2757115,51312,629
2767215,68612,827
2787215,85913,074
2797216,02913,368
2807216,22213,661
2817216,36413,915
2827216,53614,133
2837316,70014,352
2857316,86414,569
2867316,99914,786
2877317,18915,002
2887317,37815,218
2897317,54515,433
2907317,72015,647
2917417,90415,860
2917418,09916,072
2927418,35016,282
2937418,68116,489
2947519,03516,693
2947519,38516,894
2957619,60417,093
2957619,71517,288

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

Chile

  • 1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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, Dominica; the database as a whole is cited above.