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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Nigeria	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	121,649	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	125,014	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	128,513	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	132,165	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	135,971	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	139,900	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	143,914	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	148,019	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	152,195	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	156,434	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	160,751	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	165,142	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	169,607	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	174,142	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	178,737	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	183,362	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	187,979	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	192,594	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	197,417	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	202,498	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	207,699	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	213,021	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	218,473	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	223,735	17,288

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

Nigeria

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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.