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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 EcuadorRomaniaBahrain
12,26822,414633
12,44622,262648
12,62922,106665
12,82721,931707
13,07421,828773
13,36821,704839
13,66121,571907
13,91521,443974
14,13321,1291,043
14,35220,7791,096
14,56920,6071,133
14,78620,4851,168
15,00220,3851,202
15,21820,2961,236
15,43320,2241,268
15,64720,1511,301
15,86020,0551,333
16,07219,9381,365
16,28219,8231,396
16,48919,7131,428
16,69319,6221,459
16,89419,4961,489
17,09319,3511,511
17,28819,2661,521

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.

Romania

  • 1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
  • 1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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