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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 DominicaParaguayIndonesia
705,366208,105
715,473211,408
715,579214,475
725,683217,516
725,786220,549
725,886224,473
725,984227,534
726,080230,739
726,173233,918
736,264237,056
736,352240,140
736,438243,171
736,522246,150
736,605249,086
736,688251,947
736,769254,702
746,850257,351
746,930259,906
747,012262,379
747,095264,789
757,179267,142
757,263269,437
767,348271,674
767,432273,409

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