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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 AustraliaParaguayCongo - Kinshasa
18,6925,36651,181
18,9075,47352,782
19,1515,57954,453
19,3715,68356,170
19,5955,78657,860
19,8055,88659,599
20,0485,98461,474
20,3206,08063,479
20,6946,17365,590
21,1136,26467,800
21,5536,35270,114
21,8916,43872,550
22,1976,52275,138
22,5886,60577,792
22,9806,68880,534
23,3266,76983,368
23,6646,85086,229
24,0366,93089,193
24,4457,01292,209
24,8237,09595,232
25,2047,17998,320
25,5297,263101,499
25,5747,348104,767
25,8267,432108,171

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