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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 SudanOmanIndonesia
26,1682,348208,105
26,7712,403211,408
27,3872,457214,475
28,0172,510217,516
28,6622,562220,549
29,3212,613224,473
29,9962,663227,534
30,6862,713230,739
31,3932,764233,918
32,1372,816237,056
33,0782,871240,140
33,8912,928243,171
34,5682,986246,150
35,2933,047249,086
36,0933,110251,947
37,0583,174254,702
38,1653,240257,351
39,2943,307259,906
40,5123,375262,379
41,7643,444264,789
42,9523,512267,142
44,1213,582269,437
45,2903,651271,674
46,4983,696273,409

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