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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 EcuadorUgandaCongo - Kinshasa
12,26823,40851,181
12,44624,19552,782
12,62924,99254,453
12,82725,84656,170
13,07426,66157,860
13,36827,41459,599
13,66128,20061,474
13,91529,02163,479
14,13329,84665,590
14,35230,64767,800
14,56931,46970,114
14,78632,34372,550
15,00233,25775,138
15,21834,23477,792
15,43335,27180,534
15,64736,41983,368
15,86037,67386,229
16,07239,15789,193
16,28240,87992,209
16,48942,32995,232
16,69343,63998,320
16,89445,120101,499
17,09346,645104,767
17,28848,065108,171

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.

Uganda

  • 1906-1950: 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.