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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 UgandaCongo - KinshasaIndonesia
23,40851,181208,105
24,19552,782211,408
24,99254,453214,475
25,84656,170217,516
26,66157,860220,549
27,41459,599224,473
28,20061,474227,534
29,02163,479230,739
29,84665,590233,918
30,64767,800237,056
31,46970,114240,140
32,34372,550243,171
33,25775,138246,150
34,23477,792249,086
35,27180,534251,947
36,41983,368254,702
37,67386,229257,351
39,15789,193259,906
40,87992,209262,379
42,32995,232264,789
43,63998,320267,142
45,120101,499269,437
46,645104,767271,674
48,065108,171273,409

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

Uganda

  • 1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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