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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	2,059

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 Lesotho; the database as a whole is cited above.