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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	Niger	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,424	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,785	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	275	11,170	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	276	11,580	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	278	12,015	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	279	12,472	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	280	12,954	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,459	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	282	13,986	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,532	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	15,092	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	286	15,669	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	287	16,263	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	288	16,903	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	289	17,569	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	290	18,242	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	291	18,957	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,708	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	20,462	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	293	21,228	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	294	22,023	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	294	22,842	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	295	23,691	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	295	24,587	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.

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