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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	Burkina Faso	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	387	12,268	11,075	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	390	12,446	11,405	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	393	12,629	11,828	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	396	12,827	12,380	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	398	13,074	12,829	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	401	13,368	13,178	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	404	13,661	13,540	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	405	13,915	13,917	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	406	14,133	14,309	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	409	14,352	14,722	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	412	14,569	15,152	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	414	14,786	15,600	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	416	15,002	16,064	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	420	15,218	16,563	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	426	15,433	17,072	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	435	15,647	17,575	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	445	15,860	18,094	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	455	16,072	18,621	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	468	16,282	19,157	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	485	16,489	19,698	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	504	16,693	20,242	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	516	16,894	20,788	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	518	17,093	21,336	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	530	17,288	21,889	3,570

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.

All data sources

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, Burkina Faso, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.