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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 BrazilCongo - KinshasaAlbania
174,32051,1813,085
176,90252,7823,065
179,38954,4533,047
181,72156,1703,038
183,97057,8603,026
186,16559,5993,014
188,33061,4742,998
190,43863,4792,979
192,45065,5902,957
194,45867,8002,934
196,46470,1142,915
198,40872,5502,900
200,15275,1382,892
201,89477,7922,888
203,61480,5342,882
205,35883,3682,876
207,14886,2292,868
208,85989,1932,863
210,53792,2092,861
212,25895,2322,854
213,94098,3202,842
215,577101,4992,825
216,720104,7672,799
217,718108,1712,787

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.