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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Venezuela	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	23,188	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	23,601	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	24,011	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	24,425	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	24,841	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	25,255	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	25,667	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	26,079	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	26,589	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	27,098	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	27,510	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	27,920	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	28,327	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	28,722	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	29,111	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	29,418	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	29,693	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	29,961	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	29,856	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	28,858	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	27,921	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	27,871	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	28,316	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	28,418	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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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.