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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 UgandaOmanIndonesia
23,4082,348208,105
24,1952,403211,408
24,9922,457214,475
25,8462,510217,516
26,6612,562220,549
27,4142,613224,473
28,2002,663227,534
29,0212,713230,739
29,8462,764233,918
30,6472,816237,056
31,4692,871240,140
32,3432,928243,171
33,2572,986246,150
34,2343,047249,086
35,2713,110251,947
36,4193,174254,702
37,6733,240257,351
39,1573,307259,906
40,8793,375262,379
42,3293,444264,789
43,6393,512267,142
45,1203,582269,437
46,6453,651271,674
48,0653,696273,409

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

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.