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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosBeninBrazil
2736,461174,320
2746,677176,902
2756,902179,389
2767,130181,721
2787,360183,970
2797,589186,165
2807,838188,330
2818,089190,438
2828,335192,450
2838,603194,458
2858,884196,464
2869,179198,408
2879,486200,152
2889,805201,894
28910,135203,614
29010,480205,358
29110,842207,148
29111,220208,859
29211,613210,537
29312,018212,258
29412,370213,940
29412,725215,577
29513,081216,720
29513,439217,718

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

Brazil

  • 1800 - 1870: 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)
  • 1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
  • 1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

No separate list is published for Barbados, Benin; the database as a whole is cited above.