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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 ParaguayCongo - KinshasaIreland
5,36651,1813,757
5,47352,7823,807
5,57954,4533,866
5,68356,1703,934
5,78657,8604,000
5,88659,5994,070
5,98461,4744,163
6,08063,4794,273
6,17365,5904,403
6,26467,8004,499
6,35270,1144,542
6,43872,5504,563
6,52275,1384,581
6,60577,7924,600
6,68880,5344,623
6,76983,3684,655
6,85086,2294,699
6,93089,1934,752
7,01292,2094,805
7,09595,2324,864
7,17998,3204,930
7,263101,4994,983
7,348104,7675,022
7,432108,1715,118

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

Ireland

  • 1820, 1870, 1913: MPD 2013, Bolt and Van Zanden, 2014, The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts. The Economic History Review, 67(3), 627–651
  • 1913-1926: P. Deane (1968), and Feinstein, 1972
  • 1926-1950: K.A. Kennedy, Productivity and Industrial Growth: The Irish Experience, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 3.

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