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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 ChadIndonesia
7,559208,105
7,821211,408
8,092214,475
8,395217,516
8,763220,549
9,191224,473
9,594227,534
9,967230,739
10,338233,918
10,728237,056
11,139240,140
11,550243,171
11,983246,150
12,427249,086
12,895251,947
13,379254,702
13,823257,351
14,277259,906
14,765262,379
15,252264,789
15,750267,142
16,257269,437
16,776271,674
17,307273,409

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 Chad; the database as a whole is cited above.