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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 & HerzegovinaLebanon
12,2683,8113,460
12,4463,9013,499
12,6293,9193,554
12,8273,9233,610
13,0743,9403,665
13,3683,9753,721
13,6613,9913,777
13,9153,9933,853
14,1333,9903,954
14,3523,9874,036
14,5693,9854,082
14,7863,9834,097
15,0023,9804,115
15,2183,9774,206
15,4333,9734,696
15,6473,9685,365
15,8603,9635,640
16,0723,9575,688
16,2823,9515,680
16,4893,9445,562
16,6933,9375,331
16,8943,9294,986
17,0933,9214,802
17,2883,8764,713

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

Lebanon

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828