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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Burkina Faso	Libya
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	11,075	4,993
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	11,405	5,116
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	11,828	5,237
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	12,380	5,357
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	12,829	5,476
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	13,178	5,595
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	13,540	5,715
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	13,917	5,835
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	14,309	5,967
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	14,722	6,115
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	15,152	6,270
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	15,600	6,432
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	16,064	6,144
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	16,563	5,849
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	17,072	6,010
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	17,575	6,163
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	18,094	6,291
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	18,621	6,415
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	19,157	6,549
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	19,698	6,689
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	20,242	6,826
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	20,788	6,960
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	21,336	7,088
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	21,889	7,169

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