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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	Ecuador	Albania	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	3,085	387
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	3,065	390
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	3,047	393
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	3,038	396
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	3,026	398
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	3,014	401
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	2,998	404
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	2,979	405
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	2,957	406
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	2,934	409
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	2,915	412
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	2,900	414
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	2,892	416
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	2,888	420
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	2,882	426
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	2,876	435
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	2,868	445
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	2,863	455
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	2,861	468
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	2,854	485
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	2,842	504
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	2,825	516
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	2,799	518
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	2,787	530

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 Albania, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.