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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date EcuadorBosnia & HerzegovinaUnited Arab Emirates
12,2683,8113,101
12,4463,9013,284
12,6293,9193,458
12,8273,9233,613
13,0743,9403,754
13,3683,9753,882
13,6613,9914,000
13,9153,9934,532
14,1333,9905,623
14,3523,9877,277
14,5693,9858,164
14,7863,9838,152
15,0023,9808,438
15,2183,9778,747
15,4333,9739,077
15,6473,9689,321
15,8603,9639,461
16,0723,9579,587
16,2823,9519,699
16,4893,9449,796
16,6933,9379,879
16,8943,9299,953
17,0933,92110,018
17,2883,87610,099

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

No separate list is published for United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.