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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date IndonesiaLithuaniaCongo - Kinshasa
208,1053,41951,181
211,4083,39552,782
214,4753,36754,453
217,5163,34056,170
220,5493,31357,860
224,4733,27659,599
227,5343,22361,474
230,7393,17263,479
233,9183,13465,590
237,0563,10267,800
240,1403,06870,114
243,1713,00472,550
246,1502,93775,138
249,0862,89877,792
251,9472,86980,534
254,7022,84483,368
257,3512,81886,229
259,9062,78289,193
262,3792,74492,209
264,7892,71895,232
267,1422,71098,320
269,4372,711101,499
271,6742,724104,767
273,4092,748108,171

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 Lithuania, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.