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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	Luxembourg	Germany	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	273	433	81,439	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	274	438	81,474	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	275	443	81,534	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	276	448	81,595	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	278	454	81,566	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	279	460	81,473	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	280	467	81,354	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	281	474	81,190	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	282	482	81,009	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	283	491	80,781	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	500	80,500	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	286	509	80,301	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	287	521	80,292	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	288	533	80,443	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	289	547	80,663	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	290	560	81,000	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	291	571	81,704	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	291	586	82,366	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	599	82,674	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	293	610	82,923	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	294	623	83,110	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	294	633	83,178	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	295	643	83,213	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	295	651	83,811	17,288

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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