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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 Trinidad & TobagoAlbaniaBrazil
1,3013,085174,320
1,3033,065176,902
1,3083,047179,389
1,3143,038181,721
1,3203,026183,970
1,3263,014186,165
1,3322,998188,330
1,3382,979190,438
1,3442,957192,450
1,3522,934194,458
1,3592,915196,464
1,3652,900198,408
1,3722,892200,152
1,3792,888201,894
1,3862,882203,614
1,3922,876205,358
1,3992,868207,148
1,4052,863208,859
1,4112,861210,537
1,4362,854212,258
1,4522,842213,940
1,4482,825215,577
1,4502,799216,720
1,4562,787217,718

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 Trinidad & Tobago, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.