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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 MalaysiaOmanEcuador
22,1322,34812,268
22,6952,40312,446
23,2912,45712,629
23,8742,51012,827
24,4372,56213,074
24,9932,61313,368
25,5432,66313,661
26,0862,71313,915
26,6202,76414,133
27,1612,81614,352
27,7152,87114,569
28,2682,92814,786
28,7502,98615,002
29,1633,04715,218
29,5683,11015,433
29,9773,17415,647
30,3873,24015,860
30,7823,30716,072
31,1643,37516,282
31,5393,44416,489
31,9033,51216,693
32,2573,58216,894
32,6033,65117,093
32,9563,69617,288

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

Malaysia

  • 1900-1939: Nazrin Shah, S. (2017). Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts, Oxford University Press

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.