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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	Uzbekistan	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	273	24,701	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	274	25,042	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	275	25,372	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	276	25,696	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	278	25,992	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	279	26,268	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	280	26,540	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,812	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	282	27,081	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,347	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	27,609	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,869	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	287	28,132	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,398	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	289	28,666	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	290	28,934	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	291	29,205	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,480	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	29,756	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	293	30,031	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	294	30,305	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	294	30,576	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	295	30,843	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	295	31,337	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, Uzbekistan; the database as a whole is cited above.