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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 IndonesiaOmanBurkina Faso
208,1052,34811,075
211,4082,40311,405
214,4752,45711,828
217,5162,51012,380
220,5492,56212,829
224,4732,61313,178
227,5342,66313,540
230,7392,71313,917
233,9182,76414,309
237,0562,81614,722
240,1402,87115,152
243,1712,92815,600
246,1502,98616,064
249,0863,04716,563
251,9473,11017,072
254,7023,17417,575
257,3513,24018,094
259,9063,30718,621
262,3793,37519,157
264,7893,44419,698
267,1423,51220,242
269,4373,58220,788
271,6743,65121,336
273,4093,69621,889

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.