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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 - KinshasaEcuadorSerbia
51,18112,2687,611
52,78212,4467,587
54,45312,6297,574
56,17012,8277,570
57,86013,0747,551
59,59913,3687,533
61,47413,6617,510
63,47913,9157,481
65,59014,1337,451
67,80014,3527,419
70,11414,5697,389
72,55014,7867,360
75,13815,0027,304
77,79215,2187,269
80,53415,4337,234
83,36815,6477,199
86,22915,8607,162
89,19316,0727,124
92,20916,2827,087
95,23216,4897,048
98,32016,6937,010
101,49916,8946,964
104,76717,0936,898
108,17117,2886,833

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.

Serbia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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