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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 Congo - KinshasaBarbadosIndonesia
51,181273208,105
52,782274211,408
54,453275214,475
56,170276217,516
57,860278220,549
59,599279224,473
61,474280227,534
63,479281230,739
65,590282233,918
67,800283237,056
70,114285240,140
72,550286243,171
75,138287246,150
77,792288249,086
80,534289251,947
83,368290254,702
86,229291257,351
89,193291259,906
92,209292262,379
95,232293264,789
98,320294267,142
101,499294269,437
104,767295271,674
108,171295273,409

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