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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	Senegal
Dec 31, 1999	70	12,268	10,070
Dec 31, 2000	71	12,446	10,305
Dec 31, 2001	71	12,629	10,576
Dec 31, 2002	72	12,827	10,864
Dec 31, 2003	72	13,074	11,172
Dec 31, 2004	72	13,368	11,498
Dec 31, 2005	72	13,661	11,839
Dec 31, 2006	72	13,915	12,204
Dec 31, 2007	72	14,133	12,584
Dec 31, 2008	73	14,352	12,978
Dec 31, 2009	73	14,569	13,382
Dec 31, 2010	73	14,786	13,794
Dec 31, 2011	73	15,002	14,226
Dec 31, 2012	73	15,218	14,668
Dec 31, 2013	73	15,433	15,121
Dec 31, 2014	73	15,647	15,589
Dec 31, 2015	74	15,860	16,066
Dec 31, 2016	74	16,072	16,549
Dec 31, 2017	74	16,282	17,044
Dec 31, 2018	74	16,489	17,535
Dec 31, 2019	75	16,693	18,021
Dec 31, 2020	75	16,894	18,518
Dec 31, 2021	76	17,093	19,016
Dec 31, 2022	76	17,288	19,512

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