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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	Sierra Leone	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	3,736	273
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	3,809	274
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	4,043	275
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	4,287	276
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	4,466	278
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	4,602	279
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	4,708	280
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	4,818	281
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	4,918	282
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	5,023	283
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	5,132	285
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	5,246	286
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	5,364	287
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	5,486	288
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	5,613	289
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	5,744	290
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	5,879	291
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	6,019	291
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	6,163	292
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	6,312	293
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	6,461	294
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	6,611	294
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	6,761	295
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	6,910	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.

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