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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Vietnam	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	78,394	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	79,472	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	80,546	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	81,637	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	82,720	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	83,821	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	84,942	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	86,036	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	87,136	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	88,253	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	89,373	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	90,481	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	91,591	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	92,720	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	93,883	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	95,055	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	96,222	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	97,380	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	98,507	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	99,604	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	100,695	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	101,771	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	102,815	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	103,574	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

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 Vietnam; the database as a whole is cited above.