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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 EcuadorOmanAustriaBarbados
12,2682,3488,039273
12,4462,4038,059274
12,6292,4578,090275
12,8272,5108,130276
13,0742,5628,166278
13,3682,6138,217279
13,6612,6638,274280
13,9152,7138,317281
14,1332,7648,344282
14,3522,8168,370283
14,5692,8718,390285
14,7862,9288,410286
15,0022,9868,438287
15,2183,0478,476288
15,4333,1108,527289
15,6473,1748,594290
15,8603,2408,680291
16,0723,3078,791291
16,2823,3758,847292
16,4893,4448,890293
16,6933,5128,930294
16,8943,5828,969294
17,0933,6519,004295
17,2883,6969,107295

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.

All data sources

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.

Austria

  • 1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
  • 1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

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