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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 TunisiaIndonesiaCongo - Kinshasa
9,417208,10551,181
9,514211,40852,782
9,613214,47554,453
9,711217,51656,170
9,810220,54957,860
9,906224,47359,599
9,997227,53461,474
10,087230,73963,479
10,178233,91865,590
10,274237,05667,800
10,377240,14070,114
10,491243,17172,550
10,612246,15075,138
10,737249,08677,792
10,866251,94780,534
10,996254,70283,368
11,124257,35186,229
11,248259,90689,193
11,365262,37992,209
11,477264,78995,232
11,583267,14298,320
11,681269,437101,499
11,772271,674104,767
11,862273,409108,171

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