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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	Madagascar
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	15,259
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	15,707
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	16,162
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	16,631
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	17,114
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	17,610
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	18,120
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	18,641
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	19,173
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	19,717
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	20,272
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	20,837
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	21,413
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	21,999
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	22,593
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	23,196
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	23,806
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	24,423
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	25,044
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	25,671
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	26,302
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	26,936
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	27,573
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	28,237

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, Madagascar; the database as a whole is cited above.