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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 DominicaYemenIndonesia
7016,728208,105
7117,236211,408
7117,762214,475
7218,310217,516
7218,855220,549
7219,410224,473
7220,000227,534
7220,611230,739
7221,236233,918
7321,878237,056
7322,533240,140
7323,195243,171
7323,880246,150
7324,594249,086
7325,311251,947
7326,020254,702
7426,698257,351
7427,347259,906
7427,985262,379
7428,608264,789
7529,216267,142
7529,811269,437
7630,399271,674
7631,058273,409

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