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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 MoroccoCongo - KinshasaUnited States
28,40051,181279,040
28,74452,782282,162
29,09454,453284,969
29,44756,170287,625
29,80657,860290,108
30,16959,599292,805
30,55261,474295,517
30,95363,479298,380
31,35465,590301,231
31,75467,800304,094
32,15470,114306,772
32,55372,550309,327
32,95175,138311,583
33,34677,792313,878
33,73780,534316,060
34,12483,368318,386
34,51186,229320,739
34,89889,193323,072
35,27992,209325,122
35,65395,232326,838
36,01898,320328,330
36,375101,499331,512
36,723104,767332,032
37,101108,171333,288

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