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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 BarbadosBurundiIndonesia
2736,128208,105
2746,282211,408
2756,466214,475
2766,670217,516
2786,897220,549
2797,167224,473
2807,439227,534
2817,709230,739
2827,991233,918
2838,318237,056
2858,741240,140
2869,140243,171
2879,440246,150
2889,748249,086
28910,069251,947
29010,380254,702
29110,577257,351
29110,721259,906
29210,955262,379
29311,229264,789
29411,602267,142
29411,987269,437
29512,384271,674
29512,795273,409

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, Burundi; the database as a whole is cited above.