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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 ChileEcuadorCongo - Kinshasa
15,14012,26851,181
15,34012,44652,782
15,51312,62954,453
15,68612,82756,170
15,85913,07457,860
16,02913,36859,599
16,22213,66161,474
16,36413,91563,479
16,53614,13365,590
16,70014,35267,800
16,86414,56970,114
16,99914,78672,550
17,18915,00275,138
17,37815,21877,792
17,54515,43380,534
17,72015,64783,368
17,90415,86086,229
18,09916,07289,193
18,35016,28292,209
18,68116,48995,232
19,03516,69398,320
19,38516,894101,499
19,60417,093104,767
19,71517,288108,171

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

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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