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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	Cameroon	Spain
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	15,483	40,378
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	15,913	40,563
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	16,354	40,775
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	16,815	41,433
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	17,289	42,205
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	17,764	42,869
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	18,249	43,672
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	18,746	44,370
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	19,278	45,246
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	19,843	45,993
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	20,419	46,378
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	21,002	46,573
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	21,586	46,746
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	22,181	46,777
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	22,800	46,603
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	23,513	46,465
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	24,273	46,420
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	24,995	46,460
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	25,680	46,543
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	26,373	46,739
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	27,114	47,116
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	27,878	47,366
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	28,663	47,342
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	29,417	47,625

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.

All data sources

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;

Spain

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

No separate list is published for Cameroon; the database as a whole is cited above.