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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 BarbadosAustriaAfghanistan
2738,03922,206
2748,05922,461
2758,09022,507
2768,13023,600
2788,16625,005
2798,21725,698
2808,27426,335
2818,31727,154
2828,34427,387
2838,37027,706
2858,39028,484
2868,41029,121
2878,43829,758
2888,47630,420
2898,52731,108
2908,59431,823
2918,68032,564
2918,79133,332
2928,84734,125
2938,89034,941
2948,93035,972
2948,96937,034
2959,00438,127
2959,10739,252

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

Austria

  • 1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
  • 1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

No separate list is published for Barbados, Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.