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

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