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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 EcuadorCongo - KinshasaBolivia
12,26851,1818,007
12,44652,7828,177
12,62954,4538,351
12,82756,1708,529
13,07457,8608,711
13,36859,5998,895
13,66161,4749,081
13,91563,4799,268
14,13365,5909,457
14,35267,8009,647
14,56970,1149,836
14,78672,55010,024
15,00275,13810,211
15,21877,79210,397
15,43380,53410,581
15,64783,36810,763
15,86086,22910,942
16,07289,19311,118
16,28292,20911,289
16,48995,23211,456
16,69398,32011,621
16,894101,49911,775
17,093104,76711,917
17,288108,17112,060

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

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.

Bolivia

  • 1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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