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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	Seychelles	Ecuador	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	273	78	12,268	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	274	79	12,446	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	275	80	12,629	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	276	81	12,827	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	278	82	13,074	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	279	83	13,368	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	280	84	13,661	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	281	85	13,915	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	282	86	14,133	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	283	87	14,352	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	285	87	14,569	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	286	88	14,786	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	287	89	15,002	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	288	90	15,218	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	289	91	15,433	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	290	92	15,647	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	291	92	15,860	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	291	93	16,072	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	292	94	16,282	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	293	95	16,489	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	294	96	16,693	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	294	97	16,894	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	295	98	17,093	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	295	98	17,288	3,570

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, Seychelles, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.