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