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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 - KinshasaLaosBrazil
51,1815,286174,320
52,7825,397176,902
54,4535,499179,389
56,1705,578181,721
57,8605,654183,970
59,5995,746186,165
61,4745,836188,330
63,4795,931190,438
65,5906,035192,450
67,8006,145194,458
70,1146,257196,464
72,5506,368198,408
75,1386,477200,152
77,7926,586201,894
80,5346,695203,614
83,3686,804205,358
86,2296,912207,148
89,1937,019208,859
92,2097,127210,537
95,2327,234212,258
98,3207,343213,940
101,4997,452215,577
104,7677,560216,720
108,1717,666217,718

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

Brazil

  • 1800 - 1870: 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)
  • 1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
  • 1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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