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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	Burkina Faso	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	70	12,268	11,075	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	71	12,446	11,405	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	71	12,629	11,828	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	72	12,827	12,380	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	72	13,074	12,829	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	72	13,368	13,178	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	72	13,661	13,540	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	72	13,915	13,917	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	72	14,133	14,309	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	73	14,352	14,722	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	73	14,569	15,152	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	73	14,786	15,600	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	73	15,002	16,064	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	73	15,218	16,563	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	73	15,433	17,072	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	73	15,647	17,575	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	74	15,860	18,094	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	74	16,072	18,621	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	74	16,282	19,157	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	74	16,489	19,698	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	75	16,693	20,242	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	75	16,894	20,788	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	76	17,093	21,336	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	76	17,288	21,889	46,498

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, Burkina Faso, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.