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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Guinea
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	7,610
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	7,780
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	7,821
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	7,906
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	8,121
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	8,317
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	8,478
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	8,650
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	8,860
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	9,091
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	9,327
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	9,571
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	9,825
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	10,084
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	10,351
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	10,632
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	10,924
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	11,225
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	11,534
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	11,855
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	12,160
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	12,469
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	12,778
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	13,087

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 Guinea; the database as a whole is cited above.