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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 & HerzegovinaQatar
12,2683,811627
12,4463,901659
12,6293,919691
12,8273,923724
13,0743,940757
13,3683,975850
13,6613,9911,001
13,9153,9931,153
14,1333,9901,306
14,3523,9871,460
14,5693,9851,615
14,7863,9831,770
15,0023,9801,904
15,2183,9772,010
15,4333,9732,103
15,6473,9682,187
15,8603,9632,261
16,0723,9572,326
16,2823,9512,384
16,4893,9442,435
16,6933,9372,480
16,8943,9292,519
17,0933,9212,553
17,2883,8762,559

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.