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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	3,876

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project