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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 EcuadorCroatiaCongo - Kinshasa
12,2684,37751,181
12,4464,33452,782
12,6294,17154,453
12,8274,17656,170
13,0744,17657,860
13,3684,17959,599
13,6614,18261,474
13,9154,18363,479
14,1334,18365,590
14,3524,18167,800
14,5694,17770,114
14,7864,16772,550
15,0024,15475,138
15,2184,14177,792
15,4334,12680,534
15,6474,10983,368
15,8604,08186,229
16,0724,04789,193
16,2824,00692,209
16,4893,96895,232
16,6933,94598,320
16,8943,925101,499
17,0933,839104,767
17,2883,790108,171

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

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.

Croatia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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