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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 FasoPhilippines
12,26811,07579,346
12,44611,40581,131
12,62911,82883,023
12,82712,38084,876
13,07412,82986,697
13,36813,17888,568
13,66113,54090,418
13,91513,91792,253
14,13314,30994,098
14,35214,72295,923
14,56915,15297,627
14,78615,60099,317
15,00216,064100,999
15,21816,563102,618
15,43317,072104,299
15,64717,575106,076
15,86018,094107,868
16,07218,621109,493
16,28219,157111,094
16,48919,698112,843
16,69320,242114,636
16,89420,788117,026
17,09321,336119,473
17,28821,889121,234

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.

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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