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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 - KinshasaOman
208,10551,1812,348
211,40852,7822,403
214,47554,4532,457
217,51656,1702,510
220,54957,8602,562
224,47359,5992,613
227,53461,4742,663
230,73963,4792,713
233,91865,5902,764
237,05667,8002,816
240,14070,1142,871
243,17172,5502,928
246,15075,1382,986
249,08677,7923,047
251,94780,5343,110
254,70283,3683,174
257,35186,2293,240
259,90689,1933,307
262,37992,2093,375
264,78995,2323,444
267,14298,3203,512
269,437101,4993,582
271,674104,7673,651
273,409108,1713,696

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