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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	Tunisia
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	9,417
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	9,514
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	9,613
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	9,711
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	9,810
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	9,906
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	9,997
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	10,087
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	10,178
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	10,274
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	10,377
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	10,491
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	10,612
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	10,737
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	10,866
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	10,996
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	11,124
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	11,248
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	11,365
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	11,477
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	11,583
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	11,681
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	11,772
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	11,862

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