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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 CambodiaCongo - KinshasaBrazil
12,12251,181174,320
12,31752,782176,902
12,50454,453179,389
12,69156,170181,721
12,88157,860183,970
13,07659,599186,165
13,27661,474188,330
13,46163,479190,438
13,63065,590192,450
13,80867,800194,458
13,99070,114196,464
14,16272,550198,408
14,32275,138200,152
14,48077,792201,894
14,63780,534203,614
14,79383,368205,358
14,99486,229207,148
15,23889,193208,859
15,48092,209210,537
15,71795,232212,258
15,94498,320213,940
16,149101,499215,577
16,338104,767216,720
16,514108,171217,718

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 Cambodia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.