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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date São Tomé & PríncipeBurkina FasoOmanEcuador
13811,0752,34812,268
14111,4052,40312,446
14411,8282,45712,629
14712,3802,51012,827
15112,8292,56213,074
15413,1782,61313,368
15813,5402,66313,661
16113,9172,71313,915
16514,3092,76414,133
16814,7222,81614,352
17215,1522,87114,569
17615,6002,92814,786
18016,0642,98615,002
18316,5633,04715,218
18717,0723,11015,433
19017,5753,17415,647
19418,0943,24015,860
19818,6213,30716,072
20119,1573,37516,282
20419,6983,44416,489
20820,2423,51216,693
21220,7883,58216,894
21621,3363,65117,093
22021,8893,69617,288

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.

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.

No separate list is published for São Tomé & Príncipe, Burkina Faso, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.