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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 NepalBrazilCongo - Kinshasa
23,087174,32051,181
23,487176,90252,782
23,887179,38954,453
24,273181,72156,170
24,645183,97057,860
24,989186,16559,599
25,255188,33061,474
25,484190,43863,479
25,732192,45065,590
25,998194,45867,800
26,298196,46470,114
26,664198,40872,550
27,081200,15275,138
27,505201,89477,792
27,917203,61480,534
28,311205,35883,368
28,678207,14886,229
29,034208,85989,193
29,384210,53792,209
29,718212,25895,232
30,057213,94098,320
30,595215,577101,499
31,311216,720104,767
31,845217,718108,171

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.

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