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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	Libya	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	70	4,993	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	71	5,116	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	71	5,237	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	72	5,357	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	72	5,476	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	72	5,595	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	72	5,715	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	72	5,835	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	72	5,967	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	73	6,115	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	73	6,270	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	73	6,432	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	73	6,144	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	73	5,849	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	73	6,010	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	73	6,163	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	74	6,291	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	74	6,415	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	74	6,549	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	74	6,689	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	75	6,826	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	75	6,960	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	76	7,088	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	76	7,169	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.

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