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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date MaltaSeychellesEcuador
3877812,268
3907912,446
3938012,629
3968112,827
3988213,074
4018313,368
4048413,661
4058513,915
4068614,133
4098714,352
4128714,569
4148814,786
4168915,002
4209015,218
4269115,433
4359215,647
4459215,860
4559316,072
4689416,282
4859516,489
5049616,693
5169716,894
5189817,093
5309817,288

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, Seychelles; the database as a whole is cited above.