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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	Yemen	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	16,728	387
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	17,236	390
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	17,762	393
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	18,310	396
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	18,855	398
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	19,410	401
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	20,000	404
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	20,611	405
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	21,236	406
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	21,878	409
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	22,533	412
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	23,195	414
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	23,880	416
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	24,594	420
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	25,311	426
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	26,020	435
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	26,698	445
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	27,347	455
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	27,985	468
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	28,608	485
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	29,216	504
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	29,811	516
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	30,399	518
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	31,058	530

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 Yemen, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.