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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BrazilSenegalCongo - Kinshasa
174,32010,07051,181
176,90210,30552,782
179,38910,57654,453
181,72110,86456,170
183,97011,17257,860
186,16511,49859,599
188,33011,83961,474
190,43812,20463,479
192,45012,58465,590
194,45812,97867,800
196,46413,38270,114
198,40813,79472,550
200,15214,22675,138
201,89414,66877,792
203,61415,12180,534
205,35815,58983,368
207,14816,06686,229
208,85916,54989,193
210,53717,04492,209
212,25817,53595,232
213,94018,02198,320
215,57718,518101,499
216,72019,016104,767
217,71819,512108,171

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