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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 Dominican RepublicCongo - KinshasaIndonesia
8,17551,181208,105
8,30152,782211,408
8,42754,453214,475
8,55356,170217,516
8,67857,860220,549
8,80159,599224,473
8,92461,474227,534
9,04463,479230,739
9,16465,590233,918
9,28167,800237,056
9,39870,114240,140
9,51272,550243,171
9,62775,138246,150
9,74277,792249,086
9,85580,534251,947
9,96583,368254,702
10,07286,229257,351
10,17789,193259,906
10,28192,209262,379
10,38595,232264,789
10,48798,320267,142
10,587101,499269,437
10,686104,767271,674
10,793108,171273,409

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 Dominican Republic, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.