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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 IndonesiaOmanUnited Arab Emirates
208,1052,3483,101
211,4082,4033,284
214,4752,4573,458
217,5162,5103,613
220,5492,5623,754
224,4732,6133,882
227,5342,6634,000
230,7392,7134,532
233,9182,7645,623
237,0562,8167,277
240,1402,8718,164
243,1712,9288,152
246,1502,9868,438
249,0863,0478,747
251,9473,1109,077
254,7023,1749,321
257,3513,2409,461
259,9063,3079,587
262,3793,3759,699
264,7893,4449,796
267,1423,5129,879
269,4373,5829,953
271,6743,65110,018
273,4093,69610,099

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 Oman, United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.