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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Ecuador	Guinea
Dec 31, 1999	70	12,268	7,610
Dec 31, 2000	71	12,446	7,780
Dec 31, 2001	71	12,629	7,821
Dec 31, 2002	72	12,827	7,906
Dec 31, 2003	72	13,074	8,121
Dec 31, 2004	72	13,368	8,317
Dec 31, 2005	72	13,661	8,478
Dec 31, 2006	72	13,915	8,650
Dec 31, 2007	72	14,133	8,860
Dec 31, 2008	73	14,352	9,091
Dec 31, 2009	73	14,569	9,327
Dec 31, 2010	73	14,786	9,571
Dec 31, 2011	73	15,002	9,825
Dec 31, 2012	73	15,218	10,084
Dec 31, 2013	73	15,433	10,351
Dec 31, 2014	73	15,647	10,632
Dec 31, 2015	74	15,860	10,924
Dec 31, 2016	74	16,072	11,225
Dec 31, 2017	74	16,282	11,534
Dec 31, 2018	74	16,489	11,855
Dec 31, 2019	75	16,693	12,160
Dec 31, 2020	75	16,894	12,469
Dec 31, 2021	76	17,093	12,778
Dec 31, 2022	76	17,288	13,087

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