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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 - KinshasaEcuadorNigeria
51,18112,268121,649
52,78212,446125,014
54,45312,629128,513
56,17012,827132,165
57,86013,074135,971
59,59913,368139,900
61,47413,661143,914
63,47913,915148,019
65,59014,133152,195
67,80014,352156,434
70,11414,569160,751
72,55014,786165,142
75,13815,002169,607
77,79215,218174,142
80,53415,433178,737
83,36815,647183,362
86,22915,860187,979
89,19316,072192,594
92,20916,282197,417
95,23216,489202,498
98,32016,693207,699
101,49916,894213,021
104,76717,093218,473
108,17117,288223,735

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.

Nigeria

  • 1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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