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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 BarbadosLuxembourgAustriaYemen
2734338,03916,728
2744388,05917,236
2754438,09017,762
2764488,13018,310
2784548,16618,855
2794608,21719,410
2804678,27420,000
2814748,31720,611
2824828,34421,236
2834918,37021,878
2855008,39022,533
2865098,41023,195
2875218,43823,880
2885338,47624,594
2895478,52725,311
2905608,59426,020
2915718,68026,698
2915868,79127,347
2925998,84727,985
2936108,89028,608
2946238,93029,216
2946338,96929,811
2956439,00430,399
2956519,10731,058

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