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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 GuineaCongo - KinshasaBrazil
7,61051,181174,320
7,78052,782176,902
7,82154,453179,389
7,90656,170181,721
8,12157,860183,970
8,31759,599186,165
8,47861,474188,330
8,65063,479190,438
8,86065,590192,450
9,09167,800194,458
9,32770,114196,464
9,57172,550198,408
9,82575,138200,152
10,08477,792201,894
10,35180,534203,614
10,63283,368205,358
10,92486,229207,148
11,22589,193208,859
11,53492,209210,537
11,85595,232212,258
12,16098,320213,940
12,469101,499215,577
12,778104,767216,720
13,087108,171217,718

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

Brazil

  • 1800 - 1870: 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)
  • 1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
  • 1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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