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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 FasoLiberia
12,26811,0752,741
12,44611,4052,847
12,62911,8282,917
12,82712,3802,978
13,07412,8292,983
13,36813,1783,005
13,66113,5403,138
13,91513,9173,311
14,13314,3093,469
14,35214,7223,603
14,56915,1523,708
14,78615,6003,817
15,00216,0643,984
15,21816,5634,141
15,43317,0724,244
15,64717,5754,348
15,86018,0944,460
16,07218,6214,576
16,28219,1574,689
16,48919,6984,810
16,69320,2424,904
16,89420,7885,005
17,09321,3365,109
17,28821,8895,216

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.

Liberia

  • 1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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