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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	Malta	Afghanistan	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	387	22,206	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	390	22,461	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	393	22,507	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	396	23,600	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	398	25,005	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	401	25,698	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	404	26,335	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	405	27,154	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	406	27,387	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	409	27,706	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	412	28,484	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	414	29,121	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	416	29,758	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	420	30,420	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	426	31,108	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	435	31,823	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	445	32,564	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	455	33,332	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	468	34,125	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	485	34,941	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	504	35,972	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	516	37,034	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	518	38,127	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	530	39,252	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 Malta, Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.