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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	St. Lucia	Dominica	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	152	70	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	153	71	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	154	71	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	155	72	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	156	72	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	157	72	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	157	72	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	158	72	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	159	72	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	160	73	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	160	73	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	161	73	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	162	73	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	162	73	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	163	73	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	163	73	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	164	74	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	164	74	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	165	74	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	166	74	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	166	75	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	167	75	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	167	76	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	167	76	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.

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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 St. Lucia, Dominica; the database as a whole is cited above.