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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 EcuadorMoldovaIceland
12,2684,244277
12,4464,199281
12,6294,154285
12,8274,108288
13,0744,059289
13,3684,013293
13,6613,966296
13,9153,919304
14,1333,873311
14,3523,829319
14,5693,788319
14,7863,748318
15,0023,709319
15,2183,671321
15,4333,633324
15,6473,595327
15,8603,558331
16,0723,522335
16,2823,485343
16,4893,448353
16,6933,412361
16,8943,376366
17,0933,339372
17,2883,570380

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 Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.