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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 - KinshasaGermany
208,10551,18181,439
211,40852,78281,474
214,47554,45381,534
217,51656,17081,595
220,54957,86081,566
224,47359,59981,473
227,53461,47481,354
230,73963,47981,190
233,91865,59081,009
237,05667,80080,781
240,14070,11480,500
243,17172,55080,301
246,15075,13880,292
249,08677,79280,443
251,94780,53480,663
254,70283,36881,000
257,35186,22981,704
259,90689,19382,366
262,37992,20982,674
264,78995,23282,923
267,14298,32083,110
269,437101,49983,178
271,674104,76783,213
273,409108,17183,811

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

Germany

  • 1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
  • 1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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