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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	Qatar	Ecuador	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	627	12,268	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	659	12,446	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	691	12,629	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	724	12,827	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	757	13,074	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	850	13,368	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	1,001	13,661	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	1,153	13,915	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	1,306	14,133	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	1,460	14,352	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	1,615	14,569	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	1,770	14,786	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	1,904	15,002	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	2,010	15,218	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	2,103	15,433	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	2,187	15,647	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	2,261	15,860	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	2,326	16,072	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	2,384	16,282	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	2,435	16,489	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	2,480	16,693	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	2,519	16,894	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	2,553	17,093	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	2,559	17,288	2,787

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 Qatar, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.