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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 EcuadorIcelandMadagascar
12,26827715,259
12,44628115,707
12,62928516,162
12,82728816,631
13,07428917,114
13,36829317,610
13,66129618,120
13,91530418,641
14,13331119,173
14,35231919,717
14,56931920,272
14,78631820,837
15,00231921,413
15,21832121,999
15,43332422,593
15,64732723,196
15,86033123,806
16,07233524,423
16,28234325,044
16,48935325,671
16,69336126,302
16,89436626,936
17,09337227,573
17,28838028,237

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 Madagascar; the database as a whole is cited above.