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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 SeychellesBurkina FasoIndonesia
7811,075208,105
7911,405211,408
8011,828214,475
8112,380217,516
8212,829220,549
8313,178224,473
8413,540227,534
8513,917230,739
8614,309233,918
8714,722237,056
8715,152240,140
8815,600243,171
8916,064246,150
9016,563249,086
9117,072251,947
9217,575254,702
9218,094257,351
9318,621259,906
9419,157262,379
9519,698264,789
9620,242267,142
9720,788269,437
9821,336271,674
9821,889273,409

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 Seychelles, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.