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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 - KinshasaEcuadorChile
51,18112,26815,140
52,78212,44615,340
54,45312,62915,513
56,17012,82715,686
57,86013,07415,859
59,59913,36816,029
61,47413,66116,222
63,47913,91516,364
65,59014,13316,536
67,80014,35216,700
70,11414,56916,864
72,55014,78616,999
75,13815,00217,189
77,79215,21817,378
80,53415,43317,545
83,36815,64717,720
86,22915,86017,904
89,19316,07218,099
92,20916,28218,350
95,23216,48918,681
98,32016,69319,035
101,49916,89419,385
104,76717,09319,604
108,17117,28819,715

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

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

Chile

  • 1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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