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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	France	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	60,396	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	60,811	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	61,255	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	61,703	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	62,141	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	62,600	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	63,073	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	63,513	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	63,906	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	64,264	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	64,594	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	64,913	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	65,231	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	65,552	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	65,891	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	66,212	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	66,480	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	66,730	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	67,015	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	67,347	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	67,660	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	67,901	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	68,114	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	68,387	3,228

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.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

No separate list is published for Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.