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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosLuxembourgAustriaCongo - Kinshasa
2734338,03951,181
2744388,05952,782
2754438,09054,453
2764488,13056,170
2784548,16657,860
2794608,21759,599
2804678,27461,474
2814748,31763,479
2824828,34465,590
2834918,37067,800
2855008,39070,114
2865098,41072,550
2875218,43875,138
2885338,47677,792
2895478,52780,534
2905608,59483,368
2915718,68086,229
2915868,79189,193
2925998,84792,209
2936108,89095,232
2946238,93098,320
2946338,969101,499
2956439,004104,767
2956519,107108,171

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

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, Luxembourg, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.