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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	Comoros
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	1,378	531
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	1,400	545
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	1,391	559
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	1,382	574
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	1,374	590
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	1,365	606
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	1,357	623
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	1,349	640
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	1,341	657
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	1,337	674
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	1,334	690
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	1,332	706
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	1,328	722
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	1,324	737
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	1,319	752
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	1,314	767
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	1,312	781
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	1,314	795
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	1,314	808
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	1,318	821
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	1,323	837
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	1,327	853
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	1,329	869
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	1,330	885

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, Comoros; the database as a whole is cited above.