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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	St. Lucia	Ecuador	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	152	12,268	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	153	12,446	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	154	12,629	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	155	12,827	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	156	13,074	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	157	13,368	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	157	13,661	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	158	13,915	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	159	14,133	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	160	14,352	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	160	14,569	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	161	14,786	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	162	15,002	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	162	15,218	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	163	15,433	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	163	15,647	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	164	15,860	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	164	16,072	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	165	16,282	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	166	16,489	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	166	16,693	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	167	16,894	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	167	17,093	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	167	17,288	2,787

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