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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 Trinidad & TobagoBurkina FasoIndonesia
1,30111,075208,105
1,30311,405211,408
1,30811,828214,475
1,31412,380217,516
1,32012,829220,549
1,32613,178224,473
1,33213,540227,534
1,33813,917230,739
1,34414,309233,918
1,35214,722237,056
1,35915,152240,140
1,36515,600243,171
1,37216,064246,150
1,37916,563249,086
1,38617,072251,947
1,39217,575254,702
1,39918,094257,351
1,40518,621259,906
1,41119,157262,379
1,43619,698264,789
1,45220,242267,142
1,44820,788269,437
1,45021,336271,674
1,45621,889273,409

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 Trinidad & Tobago, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.