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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Oman	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	2,348	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	2,403	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	2,457	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	2,510	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	2,562	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	2,613	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	2,663	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	2,713	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	2,764	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	2,816	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	2,871	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	2,928	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	2,986	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	3,047	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	3,110	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	3,174	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	3,240	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	3,307	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	3,375	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	3,444	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	3,512	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	3,582	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	3,651	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	3,696	5,216

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

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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