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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Belgium	Malawi
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	10,227	11,310
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	10,252	11,658
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	10,288	12,020
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	10,334	12,395
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	10,377	12,786
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	10,422	13,196
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	10,480	13,625
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	10,549	14,072
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	10,627	14,539
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	10,711	15,026
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	10,797	15,525
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	10,897	16,028
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	11,039	16,534
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	11,108	17,042
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	11,160	17,551
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	11,210	18,060
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	11,275	18,571
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	11,332	19,086
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	11,376	19,603
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	11,429	20,122
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	11,491	20,640
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	11,546	21,159
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	11,594	21,677
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	11,695	22,239

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.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

Malawi

1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.