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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 Bosnia & HerzegovinaCongo - KinshasaIndonesia
3,81151,181208,105
3,90152,782211,408
3,91954,453214,475
3,92356,170217,516
3,94057,860220,549
3,97559,599224,473
3,99161,474227,534
3,99363,479230,739
3,99065,590233,918
3,98767,800237,056
3,98570,114240,140
3,98372,550243,171
3,98075,138246,150
3,97777,792249,086
3,97380,534251,947
3,96883,368254,702
3,96386,229257,351
3,95789,193259,906
3,95192,209262,379
3,94495,232264,789
3,93798,320267,142
3,929101,499269,437
3,921104,767271,674
3,876108,171273,409

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

Indonesia

  • 1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
  • 1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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