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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 Puerto RicoCongo - KinshasaIndonesia
3,80051,181208,105
3,81152,782211,408
3,81954,453214,475
3,82456,170217,516
3,82657,860220,549
3,82759,599224,473
3,82261,474227,534
3,80563,479230,739
3,78365,590233,918
3,76167,800237,056
3,74170,114240,140
3,72272,550243,171
3,67975,138246,150
3,63677,792249,086
3,58980,534251,947
3,53483,368254,702
3,47386,229257,351
3,41189,193259,906
3,35292,209262,379
3,29595,232264,789
3,26898,320267,142
3,247101,499269,437
3,232104,767271,674
3,228108,171273,409

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