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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 EcuadorRomaniaMoldova
12,26822,4144,244
12,44622,2624,199
12,62922,1064,154
12,82721,9314,108
13,07421,8284,059
13,36821,7044,013
13,66121,5713,966
13,91521,4433,919
14,13321,1293,873
14,35220,7793,829
14,56920,6073,788
14,78620,4853,748
15,00220,3853,709
15,21820,2963,671
15,43320,2243,633
15,64720,1513,595
15,86020,0553,558
16,07219,9383,522
16,28219,8233,485
16,48919,7133,448
16,69319,6223,412
16,89419,4963,376
17,09319,3513,339
17,28819,2663,570

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 Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.