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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 EcuadorIcelandCongo - Kinshasa
12,26827751,181
12,44628152,782
12,62928554,453
12,82728856,170
13,07428957,860
13,36829359,599
13,66129661,474
13,91530463,479
14,13331165,590
14,35231967,800
14,56931970,114
14,78631872,550
15,00231975,138
15,21832177,792
15,43332480,534
15,64732783,368
15,86033186,229
16,07233589,193
16,28234392,209
16,48935395,232
16,69336198,320
16,894366101,499
17,093372104,767
17,288380108,171

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.

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.