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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 IndonesiaRomaniaMali
208,10522,41410,596
211,40822,26210,833
214,47522,10610,890
217,51621,93111,007
220,54921,82811,307
224,47321,70411,579
227,53421,57111,804
230,73921,44312,043
233,91821,12912,337
237,05620,77912,657
240,14020,60712,986
243,17120,48513,325
246,15020,38513,679
249,08620,29614,040
251,94720,22414,412
254,70220,15114,803
257,35120,05515,210
259,90619,93815,629
262,37919,82316,060
264,78919,71316,507
267,14219,62216,967
269,43719,49617,442
271,67419,35117,930
273,40919,26618,494

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 Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.