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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 IndonesiaUgandaCongo - Kinshasa
208,10523,40851,181
211,40824,19552,782
214,47524,99254,453
217,51625,84656,170
220,54926,66157,860
224,47327,41459,599
227,53428,20061,474
230,73929,02163,479
233,91829,84665,590
237,05630,64767,800
240,14031,46970,114
243,17132,34372,550
246,15033,25775,138
249,08634,23477,792
251,94735,27180,534
254,70236,41983,368
257,35137,67386,229
259,90639,15789,193
262,37940,87992,209
264,78942,32995,232
267,14243,63998,320
269,43745,120101,499
271,67446,645104,767
273,40948,065108,171

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

Uganda

  • 1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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