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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosOmanAlbaniaEcuador
2732,3483,08512,268
2742,4033,06512,446
2752,4573,04712,629
2762,5103,03812,827
2782,5623,02613,074
2792,6133,01413,368
2802,6632,99813,661
2812,7132,97913,915
2822,7642,95714,133
2832,8162,93414,352
2852,8712,91514,569
2862,9282,90014,786
2872,9862,89215,002
2883,0472,88815,218
2893,1102,88215,433
2903,1742,87615,647
2913,2402,86815,860
2913,3072,86316,072
2923,3752,86116,282
2933,4442,85416,489
2943,5122,84216,693
2943,5822,82516,894
2953,6512,79917,093
2953,6962,78717,288

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

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, Oman, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.