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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 - KinshasaMoldovaBrazil
51,1814,244174,320
52,7824,199176,902
54,4534,154179,389
56,1704,108181,721
57,8604,059183,970
59,5994,013186,165
61,4743,966188,330
63,4793,919190,438
65,5903,873192,450
67,8003,829194,458
70,1143,788196,464
72,5503,748198,408
75,1383,709200,152
77,7923,671201,894
80,5343,633203,614
83,3683,595205,358
86,2293,558207,148
89,1933,522208,859
92,2093,485210,537
95,2323,448212,258
98,3203,412213,940
101,4993,376215,577
104,7673,339216,720
108,1713,570217,718

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, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.