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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Oman	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	2,348	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	2,403	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	2,457	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	2,510	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	2,562	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	2,613	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	2,663	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	2,713	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	2,764	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	2,816	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	2,871	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	2,928	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	2,986	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	3,047	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	3,110	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	3,174	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	3,240	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	3,307	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	3,375	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	3,444	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	3,512	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	3,582	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	3,651	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	3,696	34,280

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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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