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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 BarbadosAlbaniaIndonesia
2733,085208,105
2743,065211,408
2753,047214,475
2763,038217,516
2783,026220,549
2793,014224,473
2802,998227,534
2812,979230,739
2822,957233,918
2832,934237,056
2852,915240,140
2862,900243,171
2872,892246,150
2882,888249,086
2892,882251,947
2902,876254,702
2912,868257,351
2912,863259,906
2922,861262,379
2932,854264,789
2942,842267,142
2942,825269,437
2952,799271,674
2952,787273,409

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

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 Barbados, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.