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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 FasoVietnam
12,26811,07578,394
12,44611,40579,472
12,62911,82880,546
12,82712,38081,637
13,07412,82982,720
13,36813,17883,821
13,66113,54084,942
13,91513,91786,036
14,13314,30987,136
14,35214,72288,253
14,56915,15289,373
14,78615,60090,481
15,00216,06491,591
15,21816,56392,720
15,43317,07293,883
15,64717,57595,055
15,86018,09496,222
16,07218,62197,380
16,28219,15798,507
16,48919,69899,604
16,69320,242100,695
16,89420,788101,771
17,09321,336102,815
17,28821,889103,574

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.

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