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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	Georgia
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	4,848
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	4,814
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	4,789
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	4,771
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	4,746
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	4,739
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	4,786
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	4,826
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	4,820
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	4,819
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	4,851
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	4,898
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	4,934
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	4,946
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	4,938
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	4,931
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	4,927
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	4,924
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	4,922
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	4,922
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	4,923
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	4,926
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	4,929
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	4,911

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.

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