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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	Dominica	Ecuador	United States
Dec 31, 1999	273	70	12,268	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	274	71	12,446	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	275	71	12,629	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	276	72	12,827	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	278	72	13,074	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	279	72	13,368	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	280	72	13,661	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	281	72	13,915	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	72	14,133	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	283	73	14,352	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	285	73	14,569	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	286	73	14,786	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	287	73	15,002	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	288	73	15,218	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	289	73	15,433	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	290	73	15,647	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	291	74	15,860	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	291	74	16,072	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	74	16,282	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	293	74	16,489	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	294	75	16,693	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	294	75	16,894	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	295	76	17,093	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	295	76	17,288	333,288

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

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

No separate list is published for Barbados, Dominica; the database as a whole is cited above.