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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date EcuadorPhilippinesSão Tomé & Príncipe
12,26879,346138
12,44681,131141
12,62983,023144
12,82784,876147
13,07486,697151
13,36888,568154
13,66190,418158
13,91592,253161
14,13394,098165
14,35295,923168
14,56997,627172
14,78699,317176
15,002100,999180
15,218102,618183
15,433104,299187
15,647106,076190
15,860107,868194
16,072109,493198
16,282111,094201
16,489112,843204
16,693114,636208
16,894117,026212
17,093119,473216
17,288121,234220

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.

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

No separate list is published for São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.