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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	Iceland	Albania	Ecuador	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	277	3,085	12,268	433
Dec 31, 2000	281	3,065	12,446	438
Dec 31, 2001	285	3,047	12,629	443
Dec 31, 2002	288	3,038	12,827	448
Dec 31, 2003	289	3,026	13,074	454
Dec 31, 2004	293	3,014	13,368	460
Dec 31, 2005	296	2,998	13,661	467
Dec 31, 2006	304	2,979	13,915	474
Dec 31, 2007	311	2,957	14,133	482
Dec 31, 2008	319	2,934	14,352	491
Dec 31, 2009	319	2,915	14,569	500
Dec 31, 2010	318	2,900	14,786	509
Dec 31, 2011	319	2,892	15,002	521
Dec 31, 2012	321	2,888	15,218	533
Dec 31, 2013	324	2,882	15,433	547
Dec 31, 2014	327	2,876	15,647	560
Dec 31, 2015	331	2,868	15,860	571
Dec 31, 2016	335	2,863	16,072	586
Dec 31, 2017	343	2,861	16,282	599
Dec 31, 2018	353	2,854	16,489	610
Dec 31, 2019	361	2,842	16,693	623
Dec 31, 2020	366	2,825	16,894	633
Dec 31, 2021	372	2,799	17,093	643
Dec 31, 2022	380	2,787	17,288	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.

All data sources

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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