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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Barbados	Dominica
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	273	70
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	274	71
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	275	71
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	276	72
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	278	72
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	279	72
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	280	72
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	281	72
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	282	72
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	283	73
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	285	73
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	286	73
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	287	73
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	288	73
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	289	73
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	290	73
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	291	74
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	291	74
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	292	74
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	293	74
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	294	75
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	294	75
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	295	76
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	295	76

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.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Dominica; the database as a whole is cited above.