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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 Congo - KinshasaSudanAustralia
51,18126,16818,692
52,78226,77118,907
54,45327,38719,151
56,17028,01719,371
57,86028,66219,595
59,59929,32119,805
61,47429,99620,048
63,47930,68620,320
65,59031,39320,694
67,80032,13721,113
70,11433,07821,553
72,55033,89121,891
75,13834,56822,197
77,79235,29322,588
80,53436,09322,980
83,36837,05823,326
86,22938,16523,664
89,19339,29424,036
92,20940,51224,445
95,23241,76424,823
98,32042,95225,204
101,49944,12125,529
104,76745,29025,574
108,17146,49825,826

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