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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 LiberiaCongo - KinshasaAustria
2,74151,1818,039
2,84752,7828,059
2,91754,4538,090
2,97856,1708,130
2,98357,8608,166
3,00559,5998,217
3,13861,4748,274
3,31163,4798,317
3,46965,5908,344
3,60367,8008,370
3,70870,1148,390
3,81772,5508,410
3,98475,1388,438
4,14177,7928,476
4,24480,5348,527
4,34883,3688,594
4,46086,2298,680
4,57689,1938,791
4,68992,2098,847
4,81095,2328,890
4,90498,3208,930
5,005101,4998,969
5,109104,7679,004
5,216108,1719,107

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.

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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

Liberia

  • 1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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