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Mali
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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	Mali	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	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 Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.