Population, long-run history: compare countries

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Ecuador
Mali

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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	18,494

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.

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