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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Turkmenistan	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	4,324	433
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	4,385	438
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	4,444	443
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	4,502	448
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	4,556	454
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	4,608	460
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	4,664	467
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	4,719	474
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	4,773	482
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	4,828	491
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	4,884	500
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	4,940	509
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	4,996	521
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	5,053	533
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	5,110	547
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	5,169	560
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	5,227	571
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	5,287	586
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	5,346	599
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	5,405	610
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	5,464	623
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	5,522	633
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	5,579	643
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	5,657	651

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 Turkmenistan, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.