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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 FasoSri Lanka
208,10511,07519,354
211,40811,40519,610
214,47511,82819,838
217,51612,38020,060
220,54912,82920,297
224,47313,17820,529
227,53413,54020,703
230,73913,91720,917
233,91814,30921,120
237,05614,72221,315
240,14015,15221,503
243,17115,60021,713
246,15016,06421,918
249,08616,56322,120
251,94717,07222,320
254,70217,57522,517
257,35118,09422,711
259,90618,62122,899
262,37919,15723,080
264,78919,69823,254
267,14220,24223,420
269,43720,78823,579
271,67421,33623,732
273,40921,88923,796

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, Sri Lanka; the database as a whole is cited above.