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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Austria	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	8,039	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	8,059	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	8,090	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	8,130	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	8,166	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	8,217	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	8,274	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	8,317	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	8,344	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	8,370	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	8,390	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	8,410	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	8,438	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	8,476	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	8,527	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	8,594	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	8,680	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	8,791	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	8,847	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	8,890	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	8,930	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	8,969	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	9,004	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	9,107	21,889

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.