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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 UgandaEcuadorLuxembourg
23,40812,268433
24,19512,446438
24,99212,629443
25,84612,827448
26,66113,074454
27,41413,368460
28,20013,661467
29,02113,915474
29,84614,133482
30,64714,352491
31,46914,569500
32,34314,786509
33,25715,002521
34,23415,218533
35,27115,433547
36,41915,647560
37,67315,860571
39,15716,072586
40,87916,282599
42,32916,489610
43,63916,693623
45,12016,894633
46,64517,093643
48,06517,288651

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

Uganda

  • 1906-1950: 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.

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