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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 IndonesiaCongo - KinshasaBosnia & Herzegovina
208,10551,1813,811
211,40852,7823,901
214,47554,4533,919
217,51656,1703,923
220,54957,8603,940
224,47359,5993,975
227,53461,4743,991
230,73963,4793,993
233,91865,5903,990
237,05667,8003,987
240,14070,1143,985
243,17172,5503,983
246,15075,1383,980
249,08677,7923,977
251,94780,5343,973
254,70283,3683,968
257,35186,2293,963
259,90689,1933,957
262,37992,2093,951
264,78995,2323,944
267,14298,3203,937
269,437101,4993,929
271,674104,7673,921
273,409108,1713,876

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.

All data sources

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.