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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 St. LuciaOmanIndonesia
1522,348208,105
1532,403211,408
1542,457214,475
1552,510217,516
1562,562220,549
1572,613224,473
1572,663227,534
1582,713230,739
1592,764233,918
1602,816237,056
1602,871240,140
1612,928243,171
1622,986246,150
1623,047249,086
1633,110251,947
1633,174254,702
1643,240257,351
1643,307259,906
1653,375262,379
1663,444264,789
1663,512267,142
1673,582269,437
1673,651271,674
1673,696273,409

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

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 St. Lucia, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.