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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	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	6,461	12,268	433
Dec 31, 2000	6,677	12,446	438
Dec 31, 2001	6,902	12,629	443
Dec 31, 2002	7,130	12,827	448
Dec 31, 2003	7,360	13,074	454
Dec 31, 2004	7,589	13,368	460
Dec 31, 2005	7,838	13,661	467
Dec 31, 2006	8,089	13,915	474
Dec 31, 2007	8,335	14,133	482
Dec 31, 2008	8,603	14,352	491
Dec 31, 2009	8,884	14,569	500
Dec 31, 2010	9,179	14,786	509
Dec 31, 2011	9,486	15,002	521
Dec 31, 2012	9,805	15,218	533
Dec 31, 2013	10,135	15,433	547
Dec 31, 2014	10,480	15,647	560
Dec 31, 2015	10,842	15,860	571
Dec 31, 2016	11,220	16,072	586
Dec 31, 2017	11,613	16,282	599
Dec 31, 2018	12,018	16,489	610
Dec 31, 2019	12,370	16,693	623
Dec 31, 2020	12,725	16,894	633
Dec 31, 2021	13,081	17,093	643
Dec 31, 2022	13,439	17,288	651

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, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.