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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 - KinshasaRussiaChile
51,181147,21815,140
52,782146,60015,340
54,453145,98015,513
56,170145,31015,686
57,860144,65215,859
59,599144,07116,029
61,474143,52216,222
63,479143,05316,364
65,590142,80916,536
67,800142,74616,700
70,114142,78916,864
72,550142,85316,999
75,138142,96417,189
77,792143,20517,378
80,534143,51017,545
83,368146,09417,720
86,229146,41017,904
89,193146,67818,099
92,209146,84618,350
95,232146,83418,681
98,320146,76819,035
101,499146,46319,385
104,767145,84919,604
108,171146,69319,715

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

Russia

  • 1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

Chile

  • 1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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