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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 SloveniaCongo - KinshasaAustria
1,99851,1818,039
2,00452,7828,059
2,00654,4538,090
2,00956,1708,130
2,01057,8608,166
2,01159,5998,217
2,01561,4748,274
2,02263,4798,317
2,03365,5908,344
2,03667,8008,370
2,05670,1148,390
2,06372,5508,410
2,06775,1388,438
2,07177,7928,476
2,07480,5348,527
2,07683,3688,594
2,07886,2298,680
2,07989,1938,791
2,08192,2098,847
2,08795,2328,890
2,10498,3208,930
2,118101,4998,969
2,123104,7679,004
2,124108,1719,107

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

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.