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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	6,291

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 Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.