Skip to content
ChartBasis
Choose a language: English

Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Four countries are being compared, the most the chart can show clearly. Remove one to add another.

Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date EcuadorOmanRomaniaMalta
12,2682,34822,414387
12,4462,40322,262390
12,6292,45722,106393
12,8272,51021,931396
13,0742,56221,828398
13,3682,61321,704401
13,6612,66321,571404
13,9152,71321,443405
14,1332,76421,129406
14,3522,81620,779409
14,5692,87120,607412
14,7862,92820,485414
15,0022,98620,385416
15,2183,04720,296420
15,4333,11020,224426
15,6473,17420,151435
15,8603,24020,055445
16,0723,30719,938455
16,2823,37519,823468
16,4893,44419,713485
16,6933,51219,622504
16,8943,58219,496516
17,0933,65119,351518
17,2883,69619,266530

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.

Romania

  • 1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
  • 1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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