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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 AfghanistanSudanLuxembourg
22,20626,168433
22,46126,771438
22,50727,387443
23,60028,017448
25,00528,662454
25,69829,321460
26,33529,996467
27,15430,686474
27,38731,393482
27,70632,137491
28,48433,078500
29,12133,891509
29,75834,568521
30,42035,293533
31,10836,093547
31,82337,058560
32,56438,165571
33,33239,294586
34,12540,512599
34,94141,764610
35,97242,952623
37,03444,121633
38,12745,290643
39,25246,498651

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

No separate list is published for Afghanistan, Sudan, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.