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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosQatarEcuadorPhilippines
27362712,26879,346
27465912,44681,131
27569112,62983,023
27672412,82784,876
27875713,07486,697
27985013,36888,568
2801,00113,66190,418
2811,15313,91592,253
2821,30614,13394,098
2831,46014,35295,923
2851,61514,56997,627
2861,77014,78699,317
2871,90415,002100,999
2882,01015,218102,618
2892,10315,433104,299
2902,18715,647106,076
2912,26115,860107,868
2912,32616,072109,493
2922,38416,282111,094
2932,43516,489112,843
2942,48016,693114,636
2942,51916,894117,026
2952,55317,093119,473
2952,55917,288121,234

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.

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.