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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 & HerzegovinaYemen
12,2683,81116,728
12,4463,90117,236
12,6293,91917,762
12,8273,92318,310
13,0743,94018,855
13,3683,97519,410
13,6613,99120,000
13,9153,99320,611
14,1333,99021,236
14,3523,98721,878
14,5693,98522,533
14,7863,98323,195
15,0023,98023,880
15,2183,97724,594
15,4333,97325,311
15,6473,96826,020
15,8603,96326,698
16,0723,95727,347
16,2823,95127,985
16,4893,94428,608
16,6933,93729,216
16,8943,92929,811
17,0933,92130,399
17,2883,87631,058

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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.