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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	5,907

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 Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.