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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 EcuadorLebanonBosnia & Herzegovina
12,2683,4603,811
12,4463,4993,901
12,6293,5543,919
12,8273,6103,923
13,0743,6653,940
13,3683,7213,975
13,6613,7773,991
13,9153,8533,993
14,1333,9543,990
14,3524,0363,987
14,5694,0823,985
14,7864,0973,983
15,0024,1153,980
15,2184,2063,977
15,4334,6963,973
15,6475,3653,968
15,8605,6403,963
16,0725,6883,957
16,2825,6803,951
16,4895,5623,944
16,6935,3313,937
16,8944,9863,929
17,0934,8023,921
17,2884,7133,876

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.

Lebanon

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project