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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 BarbadosPuerto RicoBrazil
2733,800174,320
2743,811176,902
2753,819179,389
2763,824181,721
2783,826183,970
2793,827186,165
2803,822188,330
2813,805190,438
2823,783192,450
2833,761194,458
2853,741196,464
2863,722198,408
2873,679200,152
2883,636201,894
2893,589203,614
2903,534205,358
2913,473207,148
2913,411208,859
2923,352210,537
2933,295212,258
2943,268213,940
2943,247215,577
2953,232216,720
2953,228217,718

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, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.