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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 TunisiaBrazilLuxembourg
9,417174,320433
9,514176,902438
9,613179,389443
9,711181,721448
9,810183,970454
9,906186,165460
9,997188,330467
10,087190,438474
10,178192,450482
10,274194,458491
10,377196,464500
10,491198,408509
10,612200,152521
10,737201,894533
10,866203,614547
10,996205,358560
11,124207,148571
11,248208,859586
11,365210,537599
11,477212,258610
11,583213,940623
11,681215,577633
11,772216,720643
11,862217,718651

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 Tunisia, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.