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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 Puerto RicoAustriaCongo - Kinshasa
3,8008,03951,181
3,8118,05952,782
3,8198,09054,453
3,8248,13056,170
3,8268,16657,860
3,8278,21759,599
3,8228,27461,474
3,8058,31763,479
3,7838,34465,590
3,7618,37067,800
3,7418,39070,114
3,7228,41072,550
3,6798,43875,138
3,6368,47677,792
3,5898,52780,534
3,5348,59483,368
3,4738,68086,229
3,4118,79189,193
3,3528,84792,209
3,2958,89095,232
3,2688,93098,320
3,2478,969101,499
3,2329,004104,767
3,2289,107108,171

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

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