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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 BarbadosAustriaCentral African Republic
2738,0393,889
2748,0593,980
2758,0904,054
2768,1304,128
2788,1664,215
2798,2174,289
2808,2744,363
2818,3174,449
2828,3444,544
2838,3704,641
2858,3904,742
2868,4104,845
2878,4384,950
2888,4765,057
2898,5275,167
2908,5945,278
2918,6805,392
2918,7915,507
2928,8475,625
2938,8905,745
2948,9305,874
2948,9696,025
2959,0046,154
2959,1076,291

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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.