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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Burkina Faso	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	11,075	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	11,405	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	11,828	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	12,380	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	12,829	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	13,178	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	13,540	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	13,917	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	14,309	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	14,722	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	15,152	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	15,600	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	16,064	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	16,563	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	17,072	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	17,575	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	18,094	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	18,621	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	19,157	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	19,698	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	20,242	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	20,788	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	21,336	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	21,889	83,811

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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