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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 FasoSeychelles
208,10511,07578
211,40811,40579
214,47511,82880
217,51612,38081
220,54912,82982
224,47313,17883
227,53413,54084
230,73913,91785
233,91814,30986
237,05614,72287
240,14015,15287
243,17115,60088
246,15016,06489
249,08616,56390
251,94717,07291
254,70217,57592
257,35118,09492
259,90618,62193
262,37919,15794
264,78919,69895
267,14220,24296
269,43720,78897
271,67421,33698
273,40921,88998

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