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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 ZambiaCongo - KinshasaSwitzerland
10,32751,1817,258
10,64952,7827,296
10,98054,4537,332
11,29056,1707,384
11,59357,8607,438
11,90759,5997,488
12,24361,4747,532
12,61263,4797,579
13,00565,5907,647
13,41267,8007,738
13,82270,1147,825
14,25572,5507,884
14,70975,1387,959
15,16577,7928,044
15,63180,5348,137
16,12183,3688,237
16,62486,2298,332
17,14089,1938,423
17,67492,2098,502
18,22295,2328,565
18,78098,3208,626
19,349101,4998,689
19,928104,7678,756
20,485108,1718,834

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

Zambia

  • 1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Switzerland

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
  • 1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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