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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Guinea	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	7,610	387
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	7,780	390
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	7,821	393
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	7,906	396
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	8,121	398
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	8,317	401
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	8,478	404
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	8,650	405
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	8,860	406
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	9,091	409
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	9,327	412
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	9,571	414
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	9,825	416
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	10,084	420
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	10,351	426
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	10,632	435
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	10,924	445
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	11,225	455
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	11,534	468
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	11,855	485
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	12,160	504
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	12,469	516
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	12,778	518
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	13,087	530

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