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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 Congo - KinshasaBurkina FasoNew Zealand
51,18111,0753,890
52,78211,4053,912
54,45311,8283,947
56,17012,3804,018
57,86012,8294,094
59,59913,1784,151
61,47413,5404,198
63,47913,9174,248
65,59014,3094,287
67,80014,7224,323
70,11415,1524,370
72,55015,6004,416
75,13816,0644,446
77,79216,5634,471
80,53417,0724,516
83,36817,5754,597
86,22918,0944,695
89,19318,6214,800
92,20919,1574,897
95,23219,6984,982
98,32020,2425,074
101,49920,7885,159
104,76721,3365,188
108,17121,8895,245

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

New Zealand

  • 1870-1939: K. Rankin, "New Zealand's Gross National Product: 1859-1939, Review of Income and Wealth, March 1992, pp. 60-1., 1870 amended to include indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita)
  • 1939-50: C. Clark, The Conditions of Economic Progress, third edition, Macmillan, London, 1957, pp. 171-2

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.