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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 IndonesiaOmanCongo - Kinshasa
208,1052,34851,181
211,4082,40352,782
214,4752,45754,453
217,5162,51056,170
220,5492,56257,860
224,4732,61359,599
227,5342,66361,474
230,7392,71363,479
233,9182,76465,590
237,0562,81667,800
240,1402,87170,114
243,1712,92872,550
246,1502,98675,138
249,0863,04777,792
251,9473,11080,534
254,7023,17483,368
257,3513,24086,229
259,9063,30789,193
262,3793,37592,209
264,7893,44495,232
267,1423,51298,320
269,4373,582101,499
271,6743,651104,767
273,4093,696108,171

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