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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 - KinshasaIndonesiaMali
51,181208,10510,596
52,782211,40810,833
54,453214,47510,890
56,170217,51611,007
57,860220,54911,307
59,599224,47311,579
61,474227,53411,804
63,479230,73912,043
65,590233,91812,337
67,800237,05612,657
70,114240,14012,986
72,550243,17113,325
75,138246,15013,679
77,792249,08614,040
80,534251,94714,412
83,368254,70214,803
86,229257,35115,210
89,193259,90615,629
92,209262,37916,060
95,232264,78916,507
98,320267,14216,967
101,499269,43717,442
104,767271,67417,930
108,171273,40918,494

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