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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 BarbadosSudanOmanIndonesia
27326,1682,348208,105
27426,7712,403211,408
27527,3872,457214,475
27628,0172,510217,516
27828,6622,562220,549
27929,3212,613224,473
28029,9962,663227,534
28130,6862,713230,739
28231,3932,764233,918
28332,1372,816237,056
28533,0782,871240,140
28633,8912,928243,171
28734,5682,986246,150
28835,2933,047249,086
28936,0933,110251,947
29037,0583,174254,702
29138,1653,240257,351
29139,2943,307259,906
29240,5123,375262,379
29341,7643,444264,789
29442,9523,512267,142
29444,1213,582269,437
29545,2903,651271,674
29546,4983,696273,409

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, Sudan, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.