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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 EcuadorParaguayIceland
12,2685,366277
12,4465,473281
12,6295,579285
12,8275,683288
13,0745,786289
13,3685,886293
13,6615,984296
13,9156,080304
14,1336,173311
14,3526,264319
14,5696,352319
14,7866,438318
15,0026,522319
15,2186,605321
15,4336,688324
15,6476,769327
15,8606,850331
16,0726,930335
16,2827,012343
16,4897,095353
16,6937,179361
16,8947,263366
17,0937,348372
17,2887,432380

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.

Iceland

  • 1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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