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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 YemenOmanIndonesia
16,7282,348208,105
17,2362,403211,408
17,7622,457214,475
18,3102,510217,516
18,8552,562220,549
19,4102,613224,473
20,0002,663227,534
20,6112,713230,739
21,2362,764233,918
21,8782,816237,056
22,5332,871240,140
23,1952,928243,171
23,8802,986246,150
24,5943,047249,086
25,3113,110251,947
26,0203,174254,702
26,6983,240257,351
27,3473,307259,906
27,9853,375262,379
28,6083,444264,789
29,2163,512267,142
29,8113,582269,437
30,3993,651271,674
31,0583,696273,409

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

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 Yemen, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.