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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 BarbadosLuxembourgCongo - KinshasaIndonesia
27343351,181208,105
27443852,782211,408
27544354,453214,475
27644856,170217,516
27845457,860220,549
27946059,599224,473
28046761,474227,534
28147463,479230,739
28248265,590233,918
28349167,800237,056
28550070,114240,140
28650972,550243,171
28752175,138246,150
28853377,792249,086
28954780,534251,947
29056083,368254,702
29157186,229257,351
29158689,193259,906
29259992,209262,379
29361095,232264,789
29462398,320267,142
294633101,499269,437
295643104,767271,674
295651108,171273,409

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