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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 GermanyCubaCongo - Kinshasa
81,43911,10851,181
81,47411,14752,782
81,53411,17954,453
81,59511,21056,170
81,56611,24157,860
81,47311,26059,599
81,35411,26861,474
81,19011,26663,479
81,00911,26165,590
80,78111,25867,800
80,50011,26070,114
80,30111,26272,550
80,29211,26475,138
80,44311,26277,792
80,66311,25080,534
81,00011,23883,368
81,70411,21486,229
82,36611,18089,193
82,67411,14792,209
82,92311,11695,232
83,11011,10598,320
83,17811,089101,499
83,21311,046104,767
83,81111,003108,171

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

Germany

  • 1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
  • 1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.