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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 IndonesiaRomaniaAlbania
208,10522,4143,085
211,40822,2623,065
214,47522,1063,047
217,51621,9313,038
220,54921,8283,026
224,47321,7043,014
227,53421,5712,998
230,73921,4432,979
233,91821,1292,957
237,05620,7792,934
240,14020,6072,915
243,17120,4852,900
246,15020,3852,892
249,08620,2962,888
251,94720,2242,882
254,70220,1512,876
257,35120,0552,868
259,90619,9382,863
262,37919,8232,861
264,78919,7132,854
267,14219,6222,842
269,43719,4962,825
271,67419,3512,799
273,40919,2662,787

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

Romania

  • 1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
  • 1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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