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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 IndonesiaRomaniaHong Kong SAR China
208,10522,4146,587
211,40822,2626,646
214,47522,1066,695
217,51621,9316,725
220,54921,8286,712
224,47321,7046,765
227,53421,5716,794
230,73921,4436,838
233,91821,1296,897
237,05620,7796,938
240,14020,6076,953
243,17120,4857,004
246,15020,3857,052
249,08620,2967,130
251,94720,2247,159
254,70220,1517,209
257,35120,0557,271
259,90619,9387,316
262,37919,8237,372
264,78919,7137,432
267,14219,6227,487
269,43719,4967,460
271,67419,3517,392
273,40919,2667,387

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 Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.