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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 - KinshasaBrazilYemen
51,181174,32016,728
52,782176,90217,236
54,453179,38917,762
56,170181,72118,310
57,860183,97018,855
59,599186,16519,410
61,474188,33020,000
63,479190,43820,611
65,590192,45021,236
67,800194,45821,878
70,114196,46422,533
72,550198,40823,195
75,138200,15223,880
77,792201,89424,594
80,534203,61425,311
83,368205,35826,020
86,229207,14826,698
89,193208,85927,347
92,209210,53727,985
95,232212,25828,608
98,320213,94029,216
101,499215,57729,811
104,767216,72030,399
108,171217,71831,058

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