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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 - KinshasaIndonesiaOman
51,181208,1052,348
52,782211,4082,403
54,453214,4752,457
56,170217,5162,510
57,860220,5492,562
59,599224,4732,613
61,474227,5342,663
63,479230,7392,713
65,590233,9182,764
67,800237,0562,816
70,114240,1402,871
72,550243,1712,928
75,138246,1502,986
77,792249,0863,047
80,534251,9473,110
83,368254,7023,174
86,229257,3513,240
89,193259,9063,307
92,209262,3793,375
95,232264,7893,444
98,320267,1423,512
101,499269,4373,582
104,767271,6743,651
108,171273,4093,696

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