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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 SingaporeCongo - KinshasaGermany
3,95951,18181,439
4,02852,78281,474
4,13854,45381,534
4,17656,17081,595
4,11557,86081,566
4,16759,59981,473
4,26661,47481,354
4,40163,47981,190
4,58965,59081,009
4,83967,80080,781
4,98870,11480,500
5,07772,55080,301
5,18475,13880,292
5,31277,79280,443
5,39980,53480,663
5,47083,36881,000
5,53586,22981,704
5,60789,19382,366
5,61292,20982,674
5,63995,23282,923
5,70498,32083,110
5,686101,49983,178
5,716104,76783,213
5,750108,17183,811

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

Singapore

  • 1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

Germany

  • 1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
  • 1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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