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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 - KinshasaGermanyPanama
51,18181,4392,848
52,78281,4742,900
54,45381,5342,952
56,17081,5953,003
57,86081,5663,054
59,59981,4733,104
61,47481,3543,155
63,47981,1903,206
65,59081,0093,258
67,80080,7813,310
70,11480,5003,360
72,55080,3013,411
75,13880,2923,460
77,79280,4433,510
80,53480,6633,559
83,36881,0003,608
86,22981,7043,657
89,19382,3663,705
92,20982,6743,753
95,23282,9233,801
98,32083,1103,862
101,49983,1783,918
104,76783,2133,970
108,17183,8114,023

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

Germany

  • 1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
  • 1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Panama

  • 1906–1945: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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