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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 ChileCongo - KinshasaRussia
15,14051,181147,218
15,34052,782146,600
15,51354,453145,980
15,68656,170145,310
15,85957,860144,652
16,02959,599144,071
16,22261,474143,522
16,36463,479143,053
16,53665,590142,809
16,70067,800142,746
16,86470,114142,789
16,99972,550142,853
17,18975,138142,964
17,37877,792143,205
17,54580,534143,510
17,72083,368146,094
17,90486,229146,410
18,09989,193146,678
18,35092,209146,846
18,68195,232146,834
19,03598,320146,768
19,385101,499146,463
19,604104,767145,849
19,715108,171146,693

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

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

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.

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