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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 BarbadosEcuadorIsrael
27312,2685,927
27412,4466,088
27512,6296,236
27612,8276,366
27813,0746,484
27913,3686,603
28013,6616,723
28113,9156,846
28214,1336,972
28314,3527,100
28514,5697,226
28614,7867,360
28715,0027,498
28815,2187,637
28915,4337,781
29015,6477,931
29115,8608,091
29116,0728,251
29216,2828,412
29316,4898,576
29416,6938,742
29416,8948,899
29517,0939,047
29517,2889,188

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.

Israel

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91

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