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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	Dominica	Barbados	Albania	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	70	273	3,085	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	71	274	3,065	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	71	275	3,047	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	72	276	3,038	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	72	278	3,026	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	72	279	3,014	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	72	280	2,998	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	72	281	2,979	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	72	282	2,957	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	73	283	2,934	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	73	285	2,915	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	73	286	2,900	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	73	287	2,892	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	73	288	2,888	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	73	289	2,882	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	73	290	2,876	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	74	291	2,868	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	74	291	2,863	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	74	292	2,861	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	74	293	2,854	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	75	294	2,842	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	75	294	2,825	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	76	295	2,799	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	76	295	2,787	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.

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 Dominica, Barbados, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.