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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	Benin	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	6,461	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	6,677	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	6,902	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	7,130	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	7,360	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	7,589	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	7,838	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	8,089	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	8,335	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	8,603	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	8,884	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	9,179	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	9,486	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	9,805	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	10,135	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	10,480	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	10,842	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	11,220	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	11,613	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	12,018	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	12,370	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	12,725	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	13,081	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	13,439	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 Benin; the database as a whole is cited above.