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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Chile	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	15,140	433
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	15,340	438
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	15,513	443
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	15,686	448
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	15,859	454
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	16,029	460
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	16,222	467
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	16,364	474
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	16,536	482
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	16,700	491
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	16,864	500
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	16,999	509
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	17,189	521
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	17,378	533
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	17,545	547
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	17,720	560
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	17,904	571
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	18,099	586
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	18,350	599
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	18,681	610
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	19,035	623
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	19,385	633
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	19,604	643
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	19,715	651

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.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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