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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 - KinshasaGermanyIndonesia
51,18181,439208,105
52,78281,474211,408
54,45381,534214,475
56,17081,595217,516
57,86081,566220,549
59,59981,473224,473
61,47481,354227,534
63,47981,190230,739
65,59081,009233,918
67,80080,781237,056
70,11480,500240,140
72,55080,301243,171
75,13880,292246,150
77,79280,443249,086
80,53480,663251,947
83,36881,000254,702
86,22981,704257,351
89,19382,366259,906
92,20982,674262,379
95,23282,923264,789
98,32083,110267,142
101,49983,178269,437
104,76783,213271,674
108,17183,811273,409

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

Germany

  • 1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
  • 1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.