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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	Barbados	Indonesia	Albania	Austria
Dec 31, 1999	273	208,105	3,085	8,039
Dec 31, 2000	274	211,408	3,065	8,059
Dec 31, 2001	275	214,475	3,047	8,090
Dec 31, 2002	276	217,516	3,038	8,130
Dec 31, 2003	278	220,549	3,026	8,166
Dec 31, 2004	279	224,473	3,014	8,217
Dec 31, 2005	280	227,534	2,998	8,274
Dec 31, 2006	281	230,739	2,979	8,317
Dec 31, 2007	282	233,918	2,957	8,344
Dec 31, 2008	283	237,056	2,934	8,370
Dec 31, 2009	285	240,140	2,915	8,390
Dec 31, 2010	286	243,171	2,900	8,410
Dec 31, 2011	287	246,150	2,892	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	288	249,086	2,888	8,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	251,947	2,882	8,527
Dec 31, 2014	290	254,702	2,876	8,594
Dec 31, 2015	291	257,351	2,868	8,680
Dec 31, 2016	291	259,906	2,863	8,791
Dec 31, 2017	292	262,379	2,861	8,847
Dec 31, 2018	293	264,789	2,854	8,890
Dec 31, 2019	294	267,142	2,842	8,930
Dec 31, 2020	294	269,437	2,825	8,969
Dec 31, 2021	295	271,674	2,799	9,004
Dec 31, 2022	295	273,409	2,787	9,107

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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.