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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 TunisiaAustriaLiberia
9,4178,0392,741
9,5148,0592,847
9,6138,0902,917
9,7118,1302,978
9,8108,1662,983
9,9068,2173,005
9,9978,2743,138
10,0878,3173,311
10,1788,3443,469
10,2748,3703,603
10,3778,3903,708
10,4918,4103,817
10,6128,4383,984
10,7378,4764,141
10,8668,5274,244
10,9968,5944,348
11,1248,6804,460
11,2488,7914,576
11,3658,8474,689
11,4778,8904,810
11,5838,9304,904
11,6818,9695,005
11,7729,0045,109
11,8629,1075,216

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;

Liberia

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

No separate list is published for Tunisia; the database as a whole is cited above.