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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	Ecuador	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	387	12,268	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	390	12,446	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	393	12,629	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	396	12,827	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	398	13,074	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	401	13,368	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	404	13,661	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	405	13,915	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	406	14,133	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	409	14,352	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	412	14,569	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	414	14,786	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	416	15,002	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	420	15,218	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	426	15,433	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	435	15,647	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	445	15,860	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	455	16,072	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	468	16,282	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	485	16,489	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	504	16,693	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	516	16,894	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	518	17,093	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	530	17,288	39,252

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.