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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Paraguay	Comoros
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	5,366	531
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	5,473	545
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	5,579	559
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	5,683	574
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	5,786	590
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	5,886	606
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	5,984	623
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	6,080	640
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	6,173	657
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	6,264	674
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	6,352	690
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	6,438	706
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	6,522	722
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	6,605	737
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	6,688	752
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	6,769	767
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	6,850	781
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	6,930	795
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	7,012	808
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	7,095	821
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	7,179	837
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	7,263	853
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	7,348	869
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	7,432	885

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.

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