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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Ecuador	Burkina Faso	Bangladesh
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	12,268	11,075	132,907
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	12,446	11,405	135,207
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	12,629	11,828	137,420
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	12,827	12,380	139,573
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	13,074	12,829	141,650
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	13,368	13,178	143,644
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	13,661	13,540	145,546
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	13,915	13,917	147,376
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	14,133	14,309	149,047
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	14,352	14,722	150,562
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	14,569	15,152	152,189
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	14,786	15,600	153,927
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	15,002	16,064	155,634
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	15,218	16,563	157,326
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	15,433	17,072	158,999
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	15,647	17,575	160,650
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	15,860	18,094	162,273
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	16,072	18,621	163,938
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	16,282	19,157	165,655
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	16,489	19,698	167,358
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	16,693	20,242	169,045
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	16,894	20,788	170,709
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	17,093	21,336	172,354
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	17,288	21,889	174,217

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

Zambia

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.

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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