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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 BarbadosIndonesiaHaiti
273208,1058,121
274211,4088,279
275214,4758,430
276217,5168,580
278220,5498,739
279224,4738,900
280227,5349,061
281230,7399,216
282233,9189,364
283237,0569,508
285240,1409,652
286243,1719,553
287246,1509,670
288249,0869,793
289251,9479,922
290254,70210,047
291257,35110,254
291259,90610,486
292262,37910,647
293264,78910,788
294267,14210,933
294269,43711,077
295271,67411,215
295273,40911,349

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