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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 - KinshasaIndia
51,1811,000,965
52,7821,018,667
54,4531,036,256
56,1701,053,663
57,8601,070,882
59,5991,087,941
61,4741,104,803
63,4791,121,354
65,5901,137,576
67,8001,153,547
70,1141,169,239
72,5501,184,638
75,1381,199,810
77,7921,214,839
80,5341,229,765
83,3681,244,577
86,2291,259,236
89,1931,273,693
92,2091,287,902
95,2321,301,821
98,3201,315,530
101,4991,329,062
104,7671,339,912
108,1711,349,060

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

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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