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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Estonia	Cape Verde
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	1,378	422
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	1,400	430
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	1,391	438
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	1,382	447
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	1,374	455
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	1,365	463
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	1,357	471
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	1,349	478
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	1,341	486
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	1,337	494
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	1,334	501
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	1,332	509
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	1,328	516
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	1,324	524
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	1,319	531
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	1,314	539
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	1,312	546
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	1,314	553
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	1,314	562
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	1,318	568
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	1,323	574
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	1,327	580
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	1,329	585
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	1,330	590

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 Estonia, Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.