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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Ethiopia
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	63,575
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	65,213
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	66,889
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	68,649
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	70,491
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	72,389
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	74,327
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	76,326
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	78,411
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	80,564
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	82,787
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	85,096
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	87,530
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	90,066
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	92,632
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	95,337
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	98,114
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	100,858
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	103,654
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	106,466
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	109,267
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	112,100
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	114,964
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	117,924

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 Ethiopia; the database as a whole is cited above.