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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 EcuadorThailandLuxembourg
12,26859,748433
12,44660,165438
12,62960,746443
12,82761,323448
13,07461,884454
13,36862,425460
13,66162,956467
13,91563,467474
14,13363,937482
14,35264,381491
14,56964,804500
14,78665,208509
15,00265,599521
15,21865,970533
15,43366,332547
15,64766,673560
15,86066,975571
16,07267,250586
16,28267,506599
16,48967,750610
16,69367,975623
16,89468,180633
17,09368,366643
17,28868,457651

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.

Thailand

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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