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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 FasoIceland
12,26811,075277
12,44611,405281
12,62911,828285
12,82712,380288
13,07412,829289
13,36813,178293
13,66113,540296
13,91513,917304
14,13314,309311
14,35214,722319
14,56915,152319
14,78615,600318
15,00216,064319
15,21816,563321
15,43317,072324
15,64717,575327
15,86018,094331
16,07218,621335
16,28219,157343
16,48919,698353
16,69320,242361
16,89420,788366
17,09321,336372
17,28821,889380

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.

Iceland

  • 1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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