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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 FasoCape Verde
208,10511,075422
211,40811,405430
214,47511,828438
217,51612,380447
220,54912,829455
224,47313,178463
227,53413,540471
230,73913,917478
233,91814,309486
237,05614,722494
240,14015,152501
243,17115,600509
246,15016,064516
249,08616,563524
251,94717,072531
254,70217,575539
257,35118,094546
259,90618,621553
262,37919,157562
264,78919,698568
267,14220,242574
269,43720,788580
271,67421,336585
273,40921,889590

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, Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.