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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 EcuadorLuxembourgBosnia & Herzegovina
12,2684333,811
12,4464383,901
12,6294433,919
12,8274483,923
13,0744543,940
13,3684603,975
13,6614673,991
13,9154743,993
14,1334823,990
14,3524913,987
14,5695003,985
14,7865093,983
15,0025213,980
15,2185333,977
15,4335473,973
15,6475603,968
15,8605713,963
16,0725863,957
16,2825993,951
16,4896103,944
16,6936233,937
16,8946333,929
17,0936433,921
17,2886513,876

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

No separate list is published for Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.