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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 IndonesiaBurkina FasoChile
208,10511,07515,140
211,40811,40515,340
214,47511,82815,513
217,51612,38015,686
220,54912,82915,859
224,47313,17816,029
227,53413,54016,222
230,73913,91716,364
233,91814,30916,536
237,05614,72216,700
240,14015,15216,864
243,17115,60016,999
246,15016,06417,189
249,08616,56317,378
251,94717,07217,545
254,70217,57517,720
257,35118,09417,904
259,90618,62118,099
262,37919,15718,350
264,78919,69818,681
267,14220,24219,035
269,43720,78819,385
271,67421,33619,604
273,40921,88919,715

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

Chile

  • 1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.