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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 CubaMaltaCongo - Kinshasa
11,10838751,181
11,14739052,782
11,17939354,453
11,21039656,170
11,24139857,860
11,26040159,599
11,26840461,474
11,26640563,479
11,26140665,590
11,25840967,800
11,26041270,114
11,26241472,550
11,26441675,138
11,26242077,792
11,25042680,534
11,23843583,368
11,21444586,229
11,18045589,193
11,14746892,209
11,11648595,232
11,10550498,320
11,089516101,499
11,046518104,767
11,003530108,171

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

Cuba

  • 1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
  • 1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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