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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 IndonesiaParaguayCongo - Kinshasa
208,1055,36651,181
211,4085,47352,782
214,4755,57954,453
217,5165,68356,170
220,5495,78657,860
224,4735,88659,599
227,5345,98461,474
230,7396,08063,479
233,9186,17365,590
237,0566,26467,800
240,1406,35270,114
243,1716,43872,550
246,1506,52275,138
249,0866,60577,792
251,9476,68880,534
254,7026,76983,368
257,3516,85086,229
259,9066,93089,193
262,3797,01292,209
264,7897,09595,232
267,1427,17998,320
269,4377,263101,499
271,6747,348104,767
273,4097,432108,171

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