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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 BrazilGermanyGuinea
174,32081,4397,610
176,90281,4747,780
179,38981,5347,821
181,72181,5957,906
183,97081,5668,121
186,16581,4738,317
188,33081,3548,478
190,43881,1908,650
192,45081,0098,860
194,45880,7819,091
196,46480,5009,327
198,40880,3019,571
200,15280,2929,825
201,89480,44310,084
203,61480,66310,351
205,35881,00010,632
207,14881,70410,924
208,85982,36611,225
210,53782,67411,534
212,25882,92311,855
213,94083,11012,160
215,57783,17812,469
216,72083,21312,778
217,71883,81113,087

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;

Germany

  • 1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
  • 1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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