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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 MongoliaCongo - KinshasaBrazil
2,43351,181174,320
2,46152,782176,902
2,48954,453179,389
2,51956,170181,721
2,54757,860183,970
2,57459,599186,165
2,60261,474188,330
2,63363,479190,438
2,66665,590192,450
2,70267,800194,458
2,74170,114196,464
2,78372,550198,408
2,82775,138200,152
2,87077,792201,894
2,91280,534203,614
2,95383,368205,358
2,99386,229207,148
3,03189,193208,859
3,06892,209210,537
3,10395,232212,258
3,17198,320213,940
3,231101,499215,577
3,284104,767216,720
3,333108,171217,718

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