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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 EcuadorSaudi ArabiaCongo - Kinshasa
12,26819,96451,181
12,44620,42652,782
12,62920,95654,453
12,82721,54956,170
13,07422,18957,860
13,36822,85059,599
13,66123,51661,474
13,91524,17863,479
14,13324,84165,590
14,35225,51867,800
14,56926,22770,114
14,78627,06872,550
15,00227,81075,138
15,21828,51677,792
15,43329,22080,534
15,64729,93683,368
15,86030,64686,229
16,07231,36089,193
16,28232,18492,209
16,48932,86995,232
16,69333,66198,320
16,89434,542101,499
17,09333,651104,767
17,28834,081108,171

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.

Saudi Arabia

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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