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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 DominicaMoldovaIndonesia
704,244208,105
714,199211,408
714,154214,475
724,108217,516
724,059220,549
724,013224,473
723,966227,534
723,919230,739
723,873233,918
733,829237,056
733,788240,140
733,748243,171
733,709246,150
733,671249,086
733,633251,947
733,595254,702
743,558257,351
743,522259,906
743,485262,379
743,448264,789
753,412267,142
753,376269,437
763,339271,674
763,570273,409

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