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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date OmanCongo - KinshasaIndonesia
2,34851,181208,105
2,40352,782211,408
2,45754,453214,475
2,51056,170217,516
2,56257,860220,549
2,61359,599224,473
2,66361,474227,534
2,71363,479230,739
2,76465,590233,918
2,81667,800237,056
2,87170,114240,140
2,92872,550243,171
2,98675,138246,150
3,04777,792249,086
3,11080,534251,947
3,17483,368254,702
3,24086,229257,351
3,30789,193259,906
3,37592,209262,379
3,44495,232264,789
3,51298,320267,142
3,582101,499269,437
3,651104,767271,674
3,696108,171273,409

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 Oman, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.