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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 BarbadosMoroccoIndonesia
27328,400208,105
27428,744211,408
27529,094214,475
27629,447217,516
27829,806220,549
27930,169224,473
28030,552227,534
28130,953230,739
28231,354233,918
28331,754237,056
28532,154240,140
28632,553243,171
28732,951246,150
28833,346249,086
28933,737251,947
29034,124254,702
29134,511257,351
29134,898259,906
29235,279262,379
29335,653264,789
29436,018267,142
29436,375269,437
29536,723271,674
29537,101273,409

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