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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 IndonesiaSudanLuxembourg
208,10526,168433
211,40826,771438
214,47527,387443
217,51628,017448
220,54928,662454
224,47329,321460
227,53429,996467
230,73930,686474
233,91831,393482
237,05632,137491
240,14033,078500
243,17133,891509
246,15034,568521
249,08635,293533
251,94736,093547
254,70237,058560
257,35138,165571
259,90639,294586
262,37940,512599
264,78941,764610
267,14242,952623
269,43744,121633
271,67445,290643
273,40946,498651

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, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.