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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Saudi Arabia	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	19,964	273
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	20,426	274
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	20,956	275
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	21,549	276
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	22,189	278
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	22,850	279
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	23,516	280
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	24,178	281
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	24,841	282
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	25,518	283
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	26,227	285
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	27,068	286
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	27,810	287
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	28,516	288
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	29,220	289
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	29,936	290
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	30,646	291
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	31,360	291
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	32,184	292
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	32,869	293
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	33,661	294
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	34,542	294
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	33,651	295
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	34,081	295

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.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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