Skip to content
ChartBasis
Choose a language: English

Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Sierra LeoneCongo - KinshasaAustria
3,73651,1818,039
3,80952,7828,059
4,04354,4538,090
4,28756,1708,130
4,46657,8608,166
4,60259,5998,217
4,70861,4748,274
4,81863,4798,317
4,91865,5908,344
5,02367,8008,370
5,13270,1148,390
5,24672,5508,410
5,36475,1388,438
5,48677,7928,476
5,61380,5348,527
5,74483,3688,594
5,87986,2298,680
6,01989,1938,791
6,16392,2098,847
6,31295,2328,890
6,46198,3208,930
6,611101,4998,969
6,761104,7679,004
6,910108,1719,107

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.

All data sources

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