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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 SudanEcuadorCongo - Kinshasa
26,16812,26851,181
26,77112,44652,782
27,38712,62954,453
28,01712,82756,170
28,66213,07457,860
29,32113,36859,599
29,99613,66161,474
30,68613,91563,479
31,39314,13365,590
32,13714,35267,800
33,07814,56970,114
33,89114,78672,550
34,56815,00275,138
35,29315,21877,792
36,09315,43380,534
37,05815,64783,368
38,16515,86086,229
39,29416,07289,193
40,51216,28292,209
41,76416,48995,232
42,95216,69398,320
44,12116,894101,499
45,29017,093104,767
46,49817,288108,171

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

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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