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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 - KinshasaDominica
174,32051,18170
176,90252,78271
179,38954,45371
181,72156,17072
183,97057,86072
186,16559,59972
188,33061,47472
190,43863,47972
192,45065,59072
194,45867,80073
196,46470,11473
198,40872,55073
200,15275,13873
201,89477,79273
203,61480,53473
205,35883,36873
207,14886,22974
208,85989,19374
210,53792,20974
212,25895,23274
213,94098,32075
215,577101,49975
216,720104,76776
217,718108,17176

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, Dominica; the database as a whole is cited above.