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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 TunisiaEcuadorGhana
9,41712,26819,327
9,51412,44619,792
9,61312,62920,280
9,71112,82720,806
9,81013,07421,350
9,90613,36821,900
9,99713,66122,469
10,08713,91523,058
10,17814,13323,661
10,27414,35224,270
10,37714,56924,899
10,49114,78625,559
10,61215,00226,244
10,73715,21826,945
10,86615,43327,664
10,99615,64728,405
11,12415,86029,146
11,24816,07229,879
11,36516,28230,617
11,47716,48931,362
11,58316,69332,111
11,68116,89432,864
11,77217,09333,622
11,86217,28834,280

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.

Ghana

  • 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.

No separate list is published for Tunisia; the database as a whole is cited above.