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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	North Macedonia	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	2,006	273
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	2,017	274
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	2,026	275
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	2,011	276
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	2,018	278
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	2,024	279
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	2,028	280
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	2,031	281
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	2,035	282
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	2,038	283
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	2,042	285
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	2,046	286
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	2,049	287
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	2,052	288
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	2,055	289
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	2,058	290
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	2,061	291
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	2,063	291
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	2,065	292
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	2,067	293
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	2,068	294
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	2,065	294
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	2,057	295
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	2,048	295

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.

North Macedonia

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

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