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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 AustraliaMoldovaCongo - Kinshasa
18,6924,24451,181
18,9074,19952,782
19,1514,15454,453
19,3714,10856,170
19,5954,05957,860
19,8054,01359,599
20,0483,96661,474
20,3203,91963,479
20,6943,87365,590
21,1133,82967,800
21,5533,78870,114
21,8913,74872,550
22,1973,70975,138
22,5883,67177,792
22,9803,63380,534
23,3263,59583,368
23,6643,55886,229
24,0363,52289,193
24,4453,48592,209
24,8233,44895,232
25,2043,41298,320
25,5293,376101,499
25,5743,339104,767
25,8263,570108,171

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 Moldova, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.