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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 IndonesiaOmanCape Verde
208,1052,348422
211,4082,403430
214,4752,457438
217,5162,510447
220,5492,562455
224,4732,613463
227,5342,663471
230,7392,713478
233,9182,764486
237,0562,816494
240,1402,871501
243,1712,928509
246,1502,986516
249,0863,047524
251,9473,110531
254,7023,174539
257,3513,240546
259,9063,307553
262,3793,375562
264,7893,444568
267,1423,512574
269,4373,582580
271,6743,651585
273,4093,696590

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, Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.