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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 IcelandUnited Arab EmiratesIndonesia
2773,101208,105
2813,284211,408
2853,458214,475
2883,613217,516
2893,754220,549
2933,882224,473
2964,000227,534
3044,532230,739
3115,623233,918
3197,277237,056
3198,164240,140
3188,152243,171
3198,438246,150
3218,747249,086
3249,077251,947
3279,321254,702
3319,461257,351
3359,587259,906
3439,699262,379
3539,796264,789
3619,879267,142
3669,953269,437
37210,018271,674
38010,099273,409

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

Iceland

  • 1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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 United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.