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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 United StatesCongo - KinshasaCambodia
279,04051,18112,122
282,16252,78212,317
284,96954,45312,504
287,62556,17012,691
290,10857,86012,881
292,80559,59913,076
295,51761,47413,276
298,38063,47913,461
301,23165,59013,630
304,09467,80013,808
306,77270,11413,990
309,32772,55014,162
311,58375,13814,322
313,87877,79214,480
316,06080,53414,637
318,38683,36814,793
320,73986,22914,994
323,07289,19315,238
325,12292,20915,480
326,83895,23215,717
328,33098,32015,944
331,512101,49916,149
332,032104,76716,338
333,288108,17116,514

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.

All data sources

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

United States

  • 1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
  • 1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
  • 1800-1830: 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)
  • 1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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