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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 - KinshasaIndonesiaAfghanistan
51,181208,10522,206
52,782211,40822,461
54,453214,47522,507
56,170217,51623,600
57,860220,54925,005
59,599224,47325,698
61,474227,53426,335
63,479230,73927,154
65,590233,91827,387
67,800237,05627,706
70,114240,14028,484
72,550243,17129,121
75,138246,15029,758
77,792249,08630,420
80,534251,94731,108
83,368254,70231,823
86,229257,35132,564
89,193259,90633,332
92,209262,37934,125
95,232264,78934,941
98,320267,14235,972
101,499269,43737,034
104,767271,67438,127
108,171273,40939,252

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