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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 BarbadosMaliBurkina FasoIndonesia
27310,59611,075208,105
27410,83311,405211,408
27510,89011,828214,475
27611,00712,380217,516
27811,30712,829220,549
27911,57913,178224,473
28011,80413,540227,534
28112,04313,917230,739
28212,33714,309233,918
28312,65714,722237,056
28512,98615,152240,140
28613,32515,600243,171
28713,67916,064246,150
28814,04016,563249,086
28914,41217,072251,947
29014,80317,575254,702
29115,21018,094257,351
29115,62918,621259,906
29216,06019,157262,379
29316,50719,698264,789
29416,96720,242267,142
29417,44220,788269,437
29517,93021,336271,674
29518,49421,889273,409

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, Mali, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.