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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 - KinshasaBurkina Faso
208,10551,18111,075
211,40852,78211,405
214,47554,45311,828
217,51656,17012,380
220,54957,86012,829
224,47359,59913,178
227,53461,47413,540
230,73963,47913,917
233,91865,59014,309
237,05667,80014,722
240,14070,11415,152
243,17172,55015,600
246,15075,13816,064
249,08677,79216,563
251,94780,53417,072
254,70283,36817,575
257,35186,22918,094
259,90689,19318,621
262,37992,20919,157
264,78995,23219,698
267,14298,32020,242
269,437101,49920,788
271,674104,76721,336
273,409108,17121,889

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.