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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 EcuadorIcelandSenegal
12,26827710,070
12,44628110,305
12,62928510,576
12,82728810,864
13,07428911,172
13,36829311,498
13,66129611,839
13,91530412,204
14,13331112,584
14,35231912,978
14,56931913,382
14,78631813,794
15,00231914,226
15,21832114,668
15,43332415,121
15,64732715,589
15,86033116,066
16,07233516,549
16,28234317,044
16,48935317,535
16,69336118,021
16,89436618,518
17,09337219,016
17,28838019,512

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 Senegal; the database as a whole is cited above.