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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 EcuadorBurkina FasoBolivia
12,26811,0758,007
12,44611,4058,177
12,62911,8288,351
12,82712,3808,529
13,07412,8298,711
13,36813,1788,895
13,66113,5409,081
13,91513,9179,268
14,13314,3099,457
14,35214,7229,647
14,56915,1529,836
14,78615,60010,024
15,00216,06410,211
15,21816,56310,397
15,43317,07210,581
15,64717,57510,763
15,86018,09410,942
16,07218,62111,118
16,28219,15711,289
16,48919,69811,456
16,69320,24211,621
16,89420,78811,775
17,09321,33611,917
17,28821,88912,060

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.

Bolivia

  • 1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.