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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 FasoNigeria
12,26811,075121,649
12,44611,405125,014
12,62911,828128,513
12,82712,380132,165
13,07412,829135,971
13,36813,178139,900
13,66113,540143,914
13,91513,917148,019
14,13314,309152,195
14,35214,722156,434
14,56915,152160,751
14,78615,600165,142
15,00216,064169,607
15,21816,563174,142
15,43317,072178,737
15,64717,575183,362
15,86018,094187,979
16,07218,621192,594
16,28219,157197,417
16,48919,698202,498
16,69320,242207,699
16,89420,788213,021
17,09321,336218,473
17,28821,889223,735

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.

Nigeria

  • 1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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