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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 LuxembourgSudanIndonesia
43326,168208,105
43826,771211,408
44327,387214,475
44828,017217,516
45428,662220,549
46029,321224,473
46729,996227,534
47430,686230,739
48231,393233,918
49132,137237,056
50033,078240,140
50933,891243,171
52134,568246,150
53335,293249,086
54736,093251,947
56037,058254,702
57138,165257,351
58639,294259,906
59940,512262,379
61041,764264,789
62342,952267,142
63344,121269,437
64345,290271,674
65146,498273,409

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