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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 EcuadorIcelandBenin
12,2682776,461
12,4462816,677
12,6292856,902
12,8272887,130
13,0742897,360
13,3682937,589
13,6612967,838
13,9153048,089
14,1333118,335
14,3523198,603
14,5693198,884
14,7863189,179
15,0023199,486
15,2183219,805
15,43332410,135
15,64732710,480
15,86033110,842
16,07233511,220
16,28234311,613
16,48935312,018
16,69336112,370
16,89436612,725
17,09337213,081
17,28838013,439

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.

Iceland

  • 1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

No separate list is published for Benin; the database as a whole is cited above.