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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 - KinshasaEcuadorHaiti
51,18112,2688,121
52,78212,4468,279
54,45312,6298,430
56,17012,8278,580
57,86013,0748,739
59,59913,3688,900
61,47413,6619,061
63,47913,9159,216
65,59014,1339,364
67,80014,3529,508
70,11414,5699,652
72,55014,7869,553
75,13815,0029,670
77,79215,2189,793
80,53415,4339,922
83,36815,64710,047
86,22915,86010,254
89,19316,07210,486
92,20916,28210,647
95,23216,48910,788
98,32016,69310,933
101,49916,89411,077
104,76717,09311,215
108,17117,28811,349

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

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.

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