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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosEcuadorBosnia & Herzegovina
27312,2683,811
27412,4463,901
27512,6293,919
27612,8273,923
27813,0743,940
27913,3683,975
28013,6613,991
28113,9153,993
28214,1333,990
28314,3523,987
28514,5693,985
28614,7863,983
28715,0023,980
28815,2183,977
28915,4333,973
29015,6473,968
29115,8603,963
29116,0723,957
29216,2823,951
29316,4893,944
29416,6933,937
29416,8943,929
29517,0933,921
29517,2883,876

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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