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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	Qatar	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	627	433
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	659	438
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	691	443
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	724	448
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	757	454
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	850	460
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	1,001	467
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	1,153	474
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	1,306	482
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	1,460	491
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	1,615	500
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	1,770	509
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	1,904	521
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	2,010	533
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	2,103	547
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	2,187	560
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	2,261	571
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	2,326	586
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	2,384	599
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	2,435	610
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	2,480	623
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	2,519	633
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	2,553	643
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	2,559	651

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, Qatar, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.