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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 SloveniaAustriaCongo - Kinshasa
1,9988,03951,181
2,0048,05952,782
2,0068,09054,453
2,0098,13056,170
2,0108,16657,860
2,0118,21759,599
2,0158,27461,474
2,0228,31763,479
2,0338,34465,590
2,0368,37067,800
2,0568,39070,114
2,0638,41072,550
2,0678,43875,138
2,0718,47677,792
2,0748,52780,534
2,0768,59483,368
2,0788,68086,229
2,0798,79189,193
2,0818,84792,209
2,0878,89095,232
2,1048,93098,320
2,1188,969101,499
2,1239,004104,767
2,1249,107108,171

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

Slovenia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.