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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 - KinshasaBrazilHaiti
51,181174,3208,121
52,782176,9028,279
54,453179,3898,430
56,170181,7218,580
57,860183,9708,739
59,599186,1658,900
61,474188,3309,061
63,479190,4389,216
65,590192,4509,364
67,800194,4589,508
70,114196,4649,652
72,550198,4089,553
75,138200,1529,670
77,792201,8949,793
80,534203,6149,922
83,368205,35810,047
86,229207,14810,254
89,193208,85910,486
92,209210,53710,647
95,232212,25810,788
98,320213,94010,933
101,499215,57711,077
104,767216,72011,215
108,171217,71811,349

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