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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 BarbadosQatarEcuadorAustria
27362712,2688,039
27465912,4468,059
27569112,6298,090
27672412,8278,130
27875713,0748,166
27985013,3688,217
2801,00113,6618,274
2811,15313,9158,317
2821,30614,1338,344
2831,46014,3528,370
2851,61514,5698,390
2861,77014,7868,410
2871,90415,0028,438
2882,01015,2188,476
2892,10315,4338,527
2902,18715,6478,594
2912,26115,8608,680
2912,32616,0728,791
2922,38416,2828,847
2932,43516,4898,890
2942,48016,6938,930
2942,51916,8948,969
2952,55317,0939,004
2952,55917,2889,107

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

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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