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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 Burkina FasoAustraliaCongo - Kinshasa
11,07518,69251,181
11,40518,90752,782
11,82819,15154,453
12,38019,37156,170
12,82919,59557,860
13,17819,80559,599
13,54020,04861,474
13,91720,32063,479
14,30920,69465,590
14,72221,11367,800
15,15221,55370,114
15,60021,89172,550
16,06422,19775,138
16,56322,58877,792
17,07222,98080,534
17,57523,32683,368
18,09423,66486,229
18,62124,03689,193
19,15724,44592,209
19,69824,82395,232
20,24225,20498,320
20,78825,529101,499
21,33625,574104,767
21,88925,826108,171

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.

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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

Australia

  • 1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
  • 1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
  • 1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
  • 1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.