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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 BarbadosBosnia & HerzegovinaIndonesia
2733,811208,105
2743,901211,408
2753,919214,475
2763,923217,516
2783,940220,549
2793,975224,473
2803,991227,534
2813,993230,739
2823,990233,918
2833,987237,056
2853,985240,140
2863,983243,171
2873,980246,150
2883,977249,086
2893,973251,947
2903,968254,702
2913,963257,351
2913,957259,906
2923,951262,379
2933,944264,789
2943,937267,142
2943,929269,437
2953,921271,674
2953,876273,409

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.