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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date EcuadorCongo - KinshasaNigeria
12,26851,181121,649
12,44652,782125,014
12,62954,453128,513
12,82756,170132,165
13,07457,860135,971
13,36859,599139,900
13,66161,474143,914
13,91563,479148,019
14,13365,590152,195
14,35267,800156,434
14,56970,114160,751
14,78672,550165,142
15,00275,138169,607
15,21877,792174,142
15,43380,534178,737
15,64783,368183,362
15,86086,229187,979
16,07289,193192,594
16,28292,209197,417
16,48995,232202,498
16,69398,320207,699
16,894101,499213,021
17,093104,767218,473
17,288108,171223,735

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.

Nigeria

  • 1885-1950: 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.