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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Oman	Brazil
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	2,348	174,320
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	2,403	176,902
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	2,457	179,389
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	2,510	181,721
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	2,562	183,970
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	2,613	186,165
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	2,663	188,330
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	2,713	190,438
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	2,764	192,450
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	2,816	194,458
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	2,871	196,464
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	2,928	198,408
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	2,986	200,152
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	3,047	201,894
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	3,110	203,614
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	3,174	205,358
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	3,240	207,148
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	3,307	208,859
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	3,375	210,537
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	3,444	212,258
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	3,512	213,940
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	3,582	215,577
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	3,651	216,720
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	3,696	217,718

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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

No separate list is published for Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.