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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 FasoNepal
208,10511,07523,087
211,40811,40523,487
214,47511,82823,887
217,51612,38024,273
220,54912,82924,645
224,47313,17824,989
227,53413,54025,255
230,73913,91725,484
233,91814,30925,732
237,05614,72225,998
240,14015,15226,298
243,17115,60026,664
246,15016,06427,081
249,08616,56327,505
251,94717,07227,917
254,70217,57528,311
257,35118,09428,678
259,90618,62129,034
262,37919,15729,384
264,78919,69829,718
267,14220,24230,057
269,43720,78830,595
271,67421,33631,311
273,40921,88931,845

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