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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	Ecuador	Albania	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	3,085	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	3,065	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	3,047	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	3,038	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	3,026	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	3,014	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	2,998	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	2,979	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	2,957	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	2,934	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	2,915	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	2,900	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	2,892	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	2,888	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	2,882	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	2,876	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	2,868	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	2,863	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	2,861	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	2,854	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	2,842	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	2,825	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	2,799	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	2,787	21,889

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.

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