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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 GermanyIndonesiaCongo - Kinshasa
81,439208,10551,181
81,474211,40852,782
81,534214,47554,453
81,595217,51656,170
81,566220,54957,860
81,473224,47359,599
81,354227,53461,474
81,190230,73963,479
81,009233,91865,590
80,781237,05667,800
80,500240,14070,114
80,301243,17172,550
80,292246,15075,138
80,443249,08677,792
80,663251,94780,534
81,000254,70283,368
81,704257,35186,229
82,366259,90689,193
82,674262,37992,209
82,923264,78995,232
83,110267,14298,320
83,178269,437101,499
83,213271,674104,767
83,811273,409108,171

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.