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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 FasoComoros
208,10511,075531
211,40811,405545
214,47511,828559
217,51612,380574
220,54912,829590
224,47313,178606
227,53413,540623
230,73913,917640
233,91814,309657
237,05614,722674
240,14015,152690
243,17115,600706
246,15016,064722
249,08616,563737
251,94717,072752
254,70217,575767
257,35118,094781
259,90618,621795
262,37919,157808
264,78919,698821
267,14220,242837
269,43720,788853
271,67421,336869
273,40921,889885

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