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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 & HerzegovinaGermany
12,2683,81181,439
12,4463,90181,474
12,6293,91981,534
12,8273,92381,595
13,0743,94081,566
13,3683,97581,473
13,6613,99181,354
13,9153,99381,190
14,1333,99081,009
14,3523,98780,781
14,5693,98580,500
14,7863,98380,301
15,0023,98080,292
15,2183,97780,443
15,4333,97380,663
15,6473,96881,000
15,8603,96381,704
16,0723,95782,366
16,2823,95182,674
16,4893,94482,923
16,6933,93783,110
16,8943,92983,178
17,0933,92183,213
17,2883,87683,811

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

Germany

  • 1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
  • 1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.