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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 EcuadorIcelandTrinidad & Tobago
12,2682771,301
12,4462811,303
12,6292851,308
12,8272881,314
13,0742891,320
13,3682931,326
13,6612961,332
13,9153041,338
14,1333111,344
14,3523191,352
14,5693191,359
14,7863181,365
15,0023191,372
15,2183211,379
15,4333241,386
15,6473271,392
15,8603311,399
16,0723351,405
16,2823431,411
16,4893531,436
16,6933611,452
16,8943661,448
17,0933721,450
17,2883801,456

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 Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.