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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 IndonesiaPuerto Rico
208,1053,800
211,4083,811
214,4753,819
217,5163,824
220,5493,826
224,4733,827
227,5343,822
230,7393,805
233,9183,783
237,0563,761
240,1403,741
243,1713,722
246,1503,679
249,0863,636
251,9473,589
254,7023,534
257,3513,473
259,9063,411
262,3793,352
264,7893,295
267,1423,268
269,4373,247
271,6743,232
273,4093,228

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 Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.