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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	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	387	12,268	11,075	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	390	12,446	11,405	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	393	12,629	11,828	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	396	12,827	12,380	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	398	13,074	12,829	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	401	13,368	13,178	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	404	13,661	13,540	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	405	13,915	13,917	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	406	14,133	14,309	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	409	14,352	14,722	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	412	14,569	15,152	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	414	14,786	15,600	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	416	15,002	16,064	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	420	15,218	16,563	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	426	15,433	17,072	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	435	15,647	17,575	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	445	15,860	18,094	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	455	16,072	18,621	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	468	16,282	19,157	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	485	16,489	19,698	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	504	16,693	20,242	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	516	16,894	20,788	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	518	17,093	21,336	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	530	17,288	21,889	19,266

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Malta, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.