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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Barbados	Namibia
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	273	1,841
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	274	1,893
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	275	1,945
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	276	1,981
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	278	2,008
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	279	2,034
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	280	2,060
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	281	2,086
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	282	2,113
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	283	2,141
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	285	2,170
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	286	2,201
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	287	2,232
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	288	2,268
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	289	2,312
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	290	2,360
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	291	2,408
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	291	2,456
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	292	2,505
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	293	2,554
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	294	2,602
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	294	2,651
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	295	2,700
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	295	2,739

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, Namibia; the database as a whole is cited above.