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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 EcuadorOmanSyria
12,2682,34815,930
12,4462,40316,329
12,6292,45716,730
12,8272,51017,132
13,0742,56217,534
13,3682,61317,942
13,6612,66318,423
13,9152,71319,252
14,1332,76420,493
14,3522,81621,221
14,5692,87121,542
14,7862,92822,050
15,0022,98622,458
15,2183,04722,258
15,4333,11020,901
15,6473,17419,318
15,8603,24018,272
16,0723,30717,669
16,2823,37517,327
16,4893,44417,601
16,6933,51218,440
16,8943,58219,241
17,0933,65120,226
17,2883,69620,985

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.

Syria

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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