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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 - KinshasaMorocco
279,04051,18128,400
282,16252,78228,744
284,96954,45329,094
287,62556,17029,447
290,10857,86029,806
292,80559,59930,169
295,51761,47430,552
298,38063,47930,953
301,23165,59031,354
304,09467,80031,754
306,77270,11432,154
309,32772,55032,553
311,58375,13832,951
313,87877,79233,346
316,06080,53433,737
318,38683,36834,124
320,73986,22934,511
323,07289,19334,898
325,12292,20935,279
326,83895,23235,653
328,33098,32036,018
331,512101,49936,375
332,032104,76736,723
333,288108,17137,101

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, Morocco; the database as a whole is cited above.