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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 EcuadorParaguayLuxembourg
12,2685,366433
12,4465,473438
12,6295,579443
12,8275,683448
13,0745,786454
13,3685,886460
13,6615,984467
13,9156,080474
14,1336,173482
14,3526,264491
14,5696,352500
14,7866,438509
15,0026,522521
15,2186,605533
15,4336,688547
15,6476,769560
15,8606,850571
16,0726,930586
16,2827,012599
16,4897,095610
16,6937,179623
16,8947,263633
17,0937,348643
17,2887,432651

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, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.