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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 TunisiaCongo - KinshasaAustralia
9,41751,18118,692
9,51452,78218,907
9,61354,45319,151
9,71156,17019,371
9,81057,86019,595
9,90659,59919,805
9,99761,47420,048
10,08763,47920,320
10,17865,59020,694
10,27467,80021,113
10,37770,11421,553
10,49172,55021,891
10,61275,13822,197
10,73777,79222,588
10,86680,53422,980
10,99683,36823,326
11,12486,22923,664
11,24889,19324,036
11,36592,20924,445
11,47795,23224,823
11,58398,32025,204
11,681101,49925,529
11,772104,76725,574
11,862108,17125,826

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

Australia

  • 1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
  • 1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
  • 1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
  • 1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

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