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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 EcuadorRomaniaUzbekistan
12,26822,41424,701
12,44622,26225,042
12,62922,10625,372
12,82721,93125,696
13,07421,82825,992
13,36821,70426,268
13,66121,57126,540
13,91521,44326,812
14,13321,12927,081
14,35220,77927,347
14,56920,60727,609
14,78620,48527,869
15,00220,38528,132
15,21820,29628,398
15,43320,22428,666
15,64720,15128,934
15,86020,05529,205
16,07219,93829,480
16,28219,82329,756
16,48919,71330,031
16,69319,62230,305
16,89419,49630,576
17,09319,35130,843
17,28819,26631,337

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 Uzbekistan; the database as a whole is cited above.