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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 - KinshasaMoldova
174,32051,1814,244
176,90252,7824,199
179,38954,4534,154
181,72156,1704,108
183,97057,8604,059
186,16559,5994,013
188,33061,4743,966
190,43863,4793,919
192,45065,5903,873
194,45867,8003,829
196,46470,1143,788
198,40872,5503,748
200,15275,1383,709
201,89477,7923,671
203,61480,5343,633
205,35883,3683,595
207,14886,2293,558
208,85989,1933,522
210,53792,2093,485
212,25895,2323,448
213,94098,3203,412
215,577101,4993,376
216,720104,7673,339
217,718108,1713,570

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