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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 FasoCameroon
208,10511,07515,483
211,40811,40515,913
214,47511,82816,354
217,51612,38016,815
220,54912,82917,289
224,47313,17817,764
227,53413,54018,249
230,73913,91718,746
233,91814,30919,278
237,05614,72219,843
240,14015,15220,419
243,17115,60021,002
246,15016,06421,586
249,08616,56322,181
251,94717,07222,800
254,70217,57523,513
257,35118,09424,273
259,90618,62124,995
262,37919,15725,680
264,78919,69826,373
267,14220,24227,114
269,43720,78827,878
271,67421,33628,663
273,40921,88929,417

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 Burkina Faso, Cameroon; the database as a whole is cited above.