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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosDominicaCongo - KinshasaIndonesia
2737051,181208,105
2747152,782211,408
2757154,453214,475
2767256,170217,516
2787257,860220,549
2797259,599224,473
2807261,474227,534
2817263,479230,739
2827265,590233,918
2837367,800237,056
2857370,114240,140
2867372,550243,171
2877375,138246,150
2887377,792249,086
2897380,534251,947
2907383,368254,702
2917486,229257,351
2917489,193259,906
2927492,209262,379
2937495,232264,789
2947598,320267,142
29475101,499269,437
29576104,767271,674
29576108,171273,409

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.

All data sources

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, Dominica, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.