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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	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	10,200

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.

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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