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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Chad	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	7,559	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	7,821	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	8,092	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	8,395	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	8,763	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	9,191	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	9,594	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	9,967	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	10,338	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	10,728	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	11,139	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	11,550	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	11,983	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	12,427	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	12,895	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	13,379	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	13,823	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	14,277	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	14,765	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	15,252	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	15,750	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	16,257	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	16,776	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	17,307	18,494

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 Chad, Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.