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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 BrazilCameroonCongo - Kinshasa
174,32015,48351,181
176,90215,91352,782
179,38916,35454,453
181,72116,81556,170
183,97017,28957,860
186,16517,76459,599
188,33018,24961,474
190,43818,74663,479
192,45019,27865,590
194,45819,84367,800
196,46420,41970,114
198,40821,00272,550
200,15221,58675,138
201,89422,18177,792
203,61422,80080,534
205,35823,51383,368
207,14824,27386,229
208,85924,99589,193
210,53725,68092,209
212,25826,37395,232
213,94027,11498,320
215,57727,878101,499
216,72028,663104,767
217,71829,417108,171

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