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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 IndonesiaThailandCongo - Kinshasa
208,10559,74851,181
211,40860,16552,782
214,47560,74654,453
217,51661,32356,170
220,54961,88457,860
224,47362,42559,599
227,53462,95661,474
230,73963,46763,479
233,91863,93765,590
237,05664,38167,800
240,14064,80470,114
243,17165,20872,550
246,15065,59975,138
249,08665,97077,792
251,94766,33280,534
254,70266,67383,368
257,35166,97586,229
259,90667,25089,193
262,37967,50692,209
264,78967,75095,232
267,14267,97598,320
269,43768,180101,499
271,67468,366104,767
273,40968,457108,171

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.

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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

Thailand

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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