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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Switzerland	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	7,258	152
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	7,296	153
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	7,332	154
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	7,384	155
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	7,438	156
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	7,488	157
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	7,532	157
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	7,579	158
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	7,647	159
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	7,738	160
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	7,825	160
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	7,884	161
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	7,959	162
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	8,044	162
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	8,137	163
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	8,237	163
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	8,332	164
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	8,423	164
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	8,502	165
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	8,565	166
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	8,626	166
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	8,689	167
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	8,756	167
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	8,834	167

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.

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

No separate list is published for St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.