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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	United States	Iran	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	279,040	64,704	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	282,162	65,411	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	284,969	66,167	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	287,625	66,689	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	290,108	67,807	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	292,805	68,480	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	295,517	69,325	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	298,380	70,158	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	301,231	71,040	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	304,094	71,942	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	306,772	72,888	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	309,327	73,826	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	311,583	74,625	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	313,878	75,446	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	316,060	76,418	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	318,386	77,521	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	320,739	78,652	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	323,072	79,700	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	325,122	80,725	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	326,838	81,721	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	328,330	82,685	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	331,512	83,614	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	332,032	84,505	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	333,288	85,108	11,695

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.

All data sources

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

Iran

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.