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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 FasoEcuador
208,10511,07512,268
211,40811,40512,446
214,47511,82812,629
217,51612,38012,827
220,54912,82913,074
224,47313,17813,368
227,53413,54013,661
230,73913,91713,915
233,91814,30914,133
237,05614,72214,352
240,14015,15214,569
243,17115,60014,786
246,15016,06415,002
249,08616,56315,218
251,94717,07215,433
254,70217,57515,647
257,35118,09415,860
259,90618,62116,072
262,37919,15716,282
264,78919,69816,489
267,14220,24216,693
269,43720,78816,894
271,67421,33617,093
273,40921,88917,288

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

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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