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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 IndonesiaRomaniaTurkmenistan
208,10522,4144,324
211,40822,2624,385
214,47522,1064,444
217,51621,9314,502
220,54921,8284,556
224,47321,7044,608
227,53421,5714,664
230,73921,4434,719
233,91821,1294,773
237,05620,7794,828
240,14020,6074,884
243,17120,4854,940
246,15020,3854,996
249,08620,2965,053
251,94720,2245,110
254,70220,1515,169
257,35120,0555,227
259,90619,9385,287
262,37919,8235,346
264,78919,7135,405
267,14219,6225,464
269,43719,4965,522
271,67419,3515,579
273,40919,2665,657

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 Turkmenistan; the database as a whole is cited above.