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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 FasoHaiti
208,10511,0758,121
211,40811,4058,279
214,47511,8288,430
217,51612,3808,580
220,54912,8298,739
224,47313,1788,900
227,53413,5409,061
230,73913,9179,216
233,91814,3099,364
237,05614,7229,508
240,14015,1529,652
243,17115,6009,553
246,15016,0649,670
249,08616,5639,793
251,94717,0729,922
254,70217,57510,047
257,35118,09410,254
259,90618,62110,486
262,37919,15710,647
264,78919,69810,788
267,14220,24210,933
269,43720,78811,077
271,67421,33611,215
273,40921,88911,349

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