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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 AustraliaCongo - KinshasaMoldova
18,69251,1814,244
18,90752,7824,199
19,15154,4534,154
19,37156,1704,108
19,59557,8604,059
19,80559,5994,013
20,04861,4743,966
20,32063,4793,919
20,69465,5903,873
21,11367,8003,829
21,55370,1143,788
21,89172,5503,748
22,19775,1383,709
22,58877,7923,671
22,98080,5343,633
23,32683,3683,595
23,66486,2293,558
24,03689,1933,522
24,44592,2093,485
24,82395,2323,448
25,20498,3203,412
25,529101,4993,376
25,574104,7673,339
25,826108,1713,570

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.

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