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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 SeychellesOmanIndonesia
782,348208,105
792,403211,408
802,457214,475
812,510217,516
822,562220,549
832,613224,473
842,663227,534
852,713230,739
862,764233,918
872,816237,056
872,871240,140
882,928243,171
892,986246,150
903,047249,086
913,110251,947
923,174254,702
923,240257,351
933,307259,906
943,375262,379
953,444264,789
963,512267,142
973,582269,437
983,651271,674
983,696273,409

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