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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 - KinshasaIndonesiaUganda
51,181208,10523,408
52,782211,40824,195
54,453214,47524,992
56,170217,51625,846
57,860220,54926,661
59,599224,47327,414
61,474227,53428,200
63,479230,73929,021
65,590233,91829,846
67,800237,05630,647
70,114240,14031,469
72,550243,17132,343
75,138246,15033,257
77,792249,08634,234
80,534251,94735,271
83,368254,70236,419
86,229257,35137,673
89,193259,90639,157
92,209262,37940,879
95,232264,78942,329
98,320267,14243,639
101,499269,43745,120
104,767271,67446,645
108,171273,40948,065

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

Uganda

  • 1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.