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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 IndonesiaRomaniaOmanCongo - Kinshasa
208,10522,4142,34851,181
211,40822,2622,40352,782
214,47522,1062,45754,453
217,51621,9312,51056,170
220,54921,8282,56257,860
224,47321,7042,61359,599
227,53421,5712,66361,474
230,73921,4432,71363,479
233,91821,1292,76465,590
237,05620,7792,81667,800
240,14020,6072,87170,114
243,17120,4852,92872,550
246,15020,3852,98675,138
249,08620,2963,04777,792
251,94720,2243,11080,534
254,70220,1513,17483,368
257,35120,0553,24086,229
259,90619,9383,30789,193
262,37919,8233,37592,209
264,78919,7133,44495,232
267,14219,6223,51298,320
269,43719,4963,582101,499
271,67419,3513,651104,767
273,40919,2663,696108,171

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.

All data sources

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