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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 EcuadorLebanonCongo - Kinshasa
12,2683,46051,181
12,4463,49952,782
12,6293,55454,453
12,8273,61056,170
13,0743,66557,860
13,3683,72159,599
13,6613,77761,474
13,9153,85363,479
14,1333,95465,590
14,3524,03667,800
14,5694,08270,114
14,7864,09772,550
15,0024,11575,138
15,2184,20677,792
15,4334,69680,534
15,6475,36583,368
15,8605,64086,229
16,0725,68889,193
16,2825,68092,209
16,4895,56295,232
16,6935,33198,320
16,8944,986101,499
17,0934,802104,767
17,2884,713108,171

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.

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

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.