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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 - KinshasaKenya
12,26851,18130,192
12,44652,78231,025
12,62954,45331,919
12,82756,17032,865
13,07457,86033,846
13,36859,59934,880
13,66161,47435,961
13,91563,47937,093
14,13365,59038,248
14,35267,80039,441
14,56970,11440,668
14,78672,55041,900
15,00275,13843,198
15,21877,79244,470
15,43380,53445,639
15,64783,36846,808
15,86086,22947,983
16,07289,19349,095
16,28292,20950,201
16,48995,23251,357
16,69398,32052,522
16,894101,49953,691
17,093104,76754,867
17,288108,17155,924

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.

Kenya

  • 1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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