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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Saudi Arabia	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	19,964	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	20,426	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	20,956	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	21,549	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	22,189	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	22,850	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	23,516	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	24,178	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	24,841	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	25,518	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	26,227	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	27,068	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	27,810	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	28,516	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	29,220	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	29,936	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	30,646	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	31,360	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	32,184	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	32,869	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	33,661	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	34,542	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	33,651	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	34,081	108,171

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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.