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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	Luxembourg	Ecuador	Cambodia
Dec 31, 1999	433	12,268	12,122
Dec 31, 2000	438	12,446	12,317
Dec 31, 2001	443	12,629	12,504
Dec 31, 2002	448	12,827	12,691
Dec 31, 2003	454	13,074	12,881
Dec 31, 2004	460	13,368	13,076
Dec 31, 2005	467	13,661	13,276
Dec 31, 2006	474	13,915	13,461
Dec 31, 2007	482	14,133	13,630
Dec 31, 2008	491	14,352	13,808
Dec 31, 2009	500	14,569	13,990
Dec 31, 2010	509	14,786	14,162
Dec 31, 2011	521	15,002	14,322
Dec 31, 2012	533	15,218	14,480
Dec 31, 2013	547	15,433	14,637
Dec 31, 2014	560	15,647	14,793
Dec 31, 2015	571	15,860	14,994
Dec 31, 2016	586	16,072	15,238
Dec 31, 2017	599	16,282	15,480
Dec 31, 2018	610	16,489	15,717
Dec 31, 2019	623	16,693	15,944
Dec 31, 2020	633	16,894	16,149
Dec 31, 2021	643	17,093	16,338
Dec 31, 2022	651	17,288	16,514

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