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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	Burkina Faso	South Africa
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	11,075	46,257
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	11,405	46,958
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	11,828	47,820
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	12,380	48,480
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	12,829	48,951
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	13,178	49,478
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	13,540	50,054
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	13,917	50,667
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	14,309	51,339
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	14,722	52,077
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	15,152	52,862
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	15,600	53,682
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	16,064	54,518
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	16,563	55,356
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	17,072	56,215
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	17,575	57,075
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	18,094	57,947
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	18,621	58,830
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	19,157	59,715
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	19,698	60,595
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	20,242	61,469
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	20,788	62,355
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	21,336	62,900
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	21,889	63,382

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.

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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