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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 - KinshasaEcuadorSingapore
51,18112,2683,959
52,78212,4464,028
54,45312,6294,138
56,17012,8274,176
57,86013,0744,115
59,59913,3684,167
61,47413,6614,266
63,47913,9154,401
65,59014,1334,589
67,80014,3524,839
70,11414,5694,988
72,55014,7865,077
75,13815,0025,184
77,79215,2185,312
80,53415,4335,399
83,36815,6475,470
86,22915,8605,535
89,19316,0725,607
92,20916,2825,612
95,23216,4895,639
98,32016,6935,704
101,49916,8945,686
104,76717,0935,716
108,17117,2885,750

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.

Singapore

  • 1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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