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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 - KinshasaPhilippines
208,10551,18179,346
211,40852,78281,131
214,47554,45383,023
217,51656,17084,876
220,54957,86086,697
224,47359,59988,568
227,53461,47490,418
230,73963,47992,253
233,91865,59094,098
237,05667,80095,923
240,14070,11497,627
243,17172,55099,317
246,15075,138100,999
249,08677,792102,618
251,94780,534104,299
254,70283,368106,076
257,35186,229107,868
259,90689,193109,493
262,37992,209111,094
264,78995,232112,843
267,14298,320114,636
269,437101,499117,026
271,674104,767119,473
273,409108,171121,234

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

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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