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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Switzerland	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	433	7,258	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	438	7,296	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	443	7,332	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	448	7,384	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	454	7,438	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	460	7,488	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	467	7,532	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	474	7,579	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	482	7,647	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	491	7,738	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	500	7,825	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	509	7,884	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	521	7,959	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	533	8,044	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	547	8,137	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	560	8,237	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	571	8,332	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	586	8,423	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	599	8,502	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	610	8,565	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	623	8,626	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	633	8,689	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	643	8,756	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	651	8,834	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

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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 Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.