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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 BarbadosIndonesiaTogo
273208,1054,852
274211,4084,992
275214,4755,135
276217,5165,278
278220,5495,425
279224,4735,578
280227,5345,715
281230,7395,865
282233,9186,042
283237,0566,220
285240,1406,405
286243,1716,587
287246,1506,772
288249,0866,961
289251,9477,154
290254,7027,351
291257,3517,552
291259,9067,757
292262,3797,965
293264,7898,176
294267,1428,376
294269,4378,579
295271,6748,784
295273,4098,991

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