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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Uganda	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	433	23,408	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	438	24,195	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	443	24,992	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	448	25,846	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	454	26,661	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	460	27,414	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	467	28,200	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	474	29,021	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	482	29,846	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	491	30,647	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	500	31,469	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	509	32,343	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	521	33,257	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	533	34,234	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	547	35,271	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	560	36,419	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	571	37,673	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	586	39,157	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	599	40,879	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	610	42,329	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	623	43,639	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	633	45,120	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	643	46,645	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	651	48,065	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

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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.