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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 FasoOman
208,10511,0752,348
211,40811,4052,403
214,47511,8282,457
217,51612,3802,510
220,54912,8292,562
224,47313,1782,613
227,53413,5402,663
230,73913,9172,713
233,91814,3092,764
237,05614,7222,816
240,14015,1522,871
243,17115,6002,928
246,15016,0642,986
249,08616,5633,047
251,94717,0723,110
254,70217,5753,174
257,35118,0943,240
259,90618,6213,307
262,37919,1573,375
264,78919,6983,444
267,14220,2423,512
269,43720,7883,582
271,67421,3363,651
273,40921,8893,696

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