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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 IndonesiaSudan
208,10526,168
211,40826,771
214,47527,387
217,51628,017
220,54928,662
224,47329,321
227,53429,996
230,73930,686
233,91831,393
237,05632,137
240,14033,078
243,17133,891
246,15034,568
249,08635,293
251,94736,093
254,70237,058
257,35138,165
259,90639,294
262,37940,512
264,78941,764
267,14242,952
269,43744,121
271,67445,290
273,40946,498

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

No separate list is published for Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.