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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 FasoLuxembourg
208,10511,075433
211,40811,405438
214,47511,828443
217,51612,380448
220,54912,829454
224,47313,178460
227,53413,540467
230,73913,917474
233,91814,309482
237,05614,722491
240,14015,152500
243,17115,600509
246,15016,064521
249,08616,563533
251,94717,072547
254,70217,575560
257,35118,094571
259,90618,621586
262,37919,157599
264,78919,698610
267,14220,242623
269,43720,788633
271,67421,336643
273,40921,889651

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