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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 BarbadosEcuadorCongo - KinshasaDominica
27312,26851,18170
27412,44652,78271
27512,62954,45371
27612,82756,17072
27813,07457,86072
27913,36859,59972
28013,66161,47472
28113,91563,47972
28214,13365,59072
28314,35267,80073
28514,56970,11473
28614,78672,55073
28715,00275,13873
28815,21877,79273
28915,43380,53473
29015,64783,36873
29115,86086,22974
29116,07289,19374
29216,28292,20974
29316,48995,23274
29416,69398,32075
29416,894101,49975
29517,093104,76776
29517,288108,17176

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