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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date SenegalCongo - KinshasaBrazil
10,07051,181174,320
10,30552,782176,902
10,57654,453179,389
10,86456,170181,721
11,17257,860183,970
11,49859,599186,165
11,83961,474188,330
12,20463,479190,438
12,58465,590192,450
12,97867,800194,458
13,38270,114196,464
13,79472,550198,408
14,22675,138200,152
14,66877,792201,894
15,12180,534203,614
15,58983,368205,358
16,06686,229207,148
16,54989,193208,859
17,04492,209210,537
17,53595,232212,258
18,02198,320213,940
18,518101,499215,577
19,016104,767216,720
19,512108,171217,718

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