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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Laos	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	5,286	433
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	5,397	438
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	5,499	443
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	5,578	448
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	5,654	454
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	5,746	460
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	5,836	467
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	5,931	474
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	6,035	482
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	6,145	491
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	6,257	500
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	6,368	509
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	6,477	521
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	6,586	533
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	6,695	547
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	6,804	560
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	6,912	571
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	7,019	586
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	7,127	599
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	7,234	610
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	7,343	623
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	7,452	633
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	7,560	643
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	7,666	651

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 Laos, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.