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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 IndonesiaMoldovaLuxembourg
208,1054,244433
211,4084,199438
214,4754,154443
217,5164,108448
220,5494,059454
224,4734,013460
227,5343,966467
230,7393,919474
233,9183,873482
237,0563,829491
240,1403,788500
243,1713,748509
246,1503,709521
249,0863,671533
251,9473,633547
254,7023,595560
257,3513,558571
259,9063,522586
262,3793,485599
264,7893,448610
267,1423,412623
269,4373,376633
271,6743,339643
273,4093,570651

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