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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date HaitiUnited StatesCongo - Kinshasa
8,121279,04051,181
8,279282,16252,782
8,430284,96954,453
8,580287,62556,170
8,739290,10857,860
8,900292,80559,599
9,061295,51761,474
9,216298,38063,479
9,364301,23165,590
9,508304,09467,800
9,652306,77270,114
9,553309,32772,550
9,670311,58375,138
9,793313,87877,792
9,922316,06080,534
10,047318,38683,368
10,254320,73986,229
10,486323,07289,193
10,647325,12292,209
10,788326,83895,232
10,933328,33098,320
11,077331,512101,499
11,215332,032104,767
11,349333,288108,171

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.

All data sources

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

United States

  • 1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
  • 1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
  • 1800-1830: 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)
  • 1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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