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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 FasoDominica
208,10511,07570
211,40811,40571
214,47511,82871
217,51612,38072
220,54912,82972
224,47313,17872
227,53413,54072
230,73913,91772
233,91814,30972
237,05614,72273
240,14015,15273
243,17115,60073
246,15016,06473
249,08616,56373
251,94717,07273
254,70217,57573
257,35118,09474
259,90618,62174
262,37919,15774
264,78919,69874
267,14220,24275
269,43720,78875
271,67421,33676
273,40921,88976

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