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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 - KinshasaLaos
208,10551,1815,286
211,40852,7825,397
214,47554,4535,499
217,51656,1705,578
220,54957,8605,654
224,47359,5995,746
227,53461,4745,836
230,73963,4795,931
233,91865,5906,035
237,05667,8006,145
240,14070,1146,257
243,17172,5506,368
246,15075,1386,477
249,08677,7926,586
251,94780,5346,695
254,70283,3686,804
257,35186,2296,912
259,90689,1937,019
262,37992,2097,127
264,78995,2327,234
267,14298,3207,343
269,437101,4997,452
271,674104,7677,560
273,409108,1717,666

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