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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 - KinshasaBrazilLibya
51,181174,3204,993
52,782176,9025,116
54,453179,3895,237
56,170181,7215,357
57,860183,9705,476
59,599186,1655,595
61,474188,3305,715
63,479190,4385,835
65,590192,4505,967
67,800194,4586,115
70,114196,4646,270
72,550198,4086,432
75,138200,1526,144
77,792201,8945,849
80,534203,6146,010
83,368205,3586,163
86,229207,1486,291
89,193208,8596,415
92,209210,5376,549
95,232212,2586,689
98,320213,9406,826
101,499215,5776,960
104,767216,7207,088
108,171217,7187,169

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, Libya; the database as a whole is cited above.