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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 EcuadorFinlandCongo - Kinshasa
12,2685,16651,181
12,4465,17652,782
12,6295,18854,453
12,8275,20156,170
13,0745,21357,860
13,3685,22859,599
13,6615,24661,474
13,9155,26663,479
14,1335,28965,590
14,3525,31367,800
14,5695,33970,114
14,7865,36372,550
15,0025,38875,138
15,2185,41477,792
15,4335,43980,534
15,6475,46383,368
15,8605,48186,229
16,0725,49589,193
16,2825,50892,209
16,4895,51695,232
16,6935,52298,320
16,8945,531101,499
17,0935,542104,767
17,2885,556108,171

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.

Finland

  • 1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
  • 1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.