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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	Lebanon	Burkina Faso	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	277	3,460	11,075	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	281	3,499	11,405	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	285	3,554	11,828	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	288	3,610	12,380	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	289	3,665	12,829	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	293	3,721	13,178	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	296	3,777	13,540	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	304	3,853	13,917	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	311	3,954	14,309	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	319	4,036	14,722	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	319	4,082	15,152	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	318	4,097	15,600	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	319	4,115	16,064	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	321	4,206	16,563	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	324	4,696	17,072	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	327	5,365	17,575	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	331	5,640	18,094	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	335	5,688	18,621	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	343	5,680	19,157	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	353	5,562	19,698	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	361	5,331	20,242	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	366	4,986	20,788	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	372	4,802	21,336	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	380	4,713	21,889	17,288

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.

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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 Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.