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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 - KinshasaCambodia
208,10551,18112,122
211,40852,78212,317
214,47554,45312,504
217,51656,17012,691
220,54957,86012,881
224,47359,59913,076
227,53461,47413,276
230,73963,47913,461
233,91865,59013,630
237,05667,80013,808
240,14070,11413,990
243,17172,55014,162
246,15075,13814,322
249,08677,79214,480
251,94780,53414,637
254,70283,36814,793
257,35186,22914,994
259,90689,19315,238
262,37992,20915,480
264,78995,23215,717
267,14298,32015,944
269,437101,49916,149
271,674104,76716,338
273,409108,17116,514

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