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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 DominicaBurkina FasoIndonesia
7011,075208,105
7111,405211,408
7111,828214,475
7212,380217,516
7212,829220,549
7213,178224,473
7213,540227,534
7213,917230,739
7214,309233,918
7314,722237,056
7315,152240,140
7315,600243,171
7316,064246,150
7316,563249,086
7317,072251,947
7317,575254,702
7418,094257,351
7418,621259,906
7419,157262,379
7419,698264,789
7520,242267,142
7520,788269,437
7621,336271,674
7621,889273,409

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 Dominica, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.