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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Cambodia	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	12,122	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	12,317	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	12,504	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	12,691	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	12,881	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	13,076	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	13,276	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	13,461	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	13,630	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	13,808	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	13,990	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	14,162	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	14,322	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	14,480	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	14,637	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	14,793	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	14,994	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	15,238	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	15,480	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	15,717	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	15,944	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	16,149	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	16,338	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	16,514	10,200

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.

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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