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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosDominicaOmanColombia
273702,34838,365
274712,40338,911
275712,45739,411
276722,51039,918
278722,56240,416
279722,61340,899
280722,66341,374
281722,71341,862
282722,76442,324
283732,81642,781
285732,87143,264
286732,92843,771
287732,98644,225
288733,04744,660
289733,11045,081
290733,17445,846
291743,24046,290
291743,30746,796
292743,37547,385
293743,44448,222
294753,51249,326
294753,58250,283
295763,65150,978
295763,69651,332

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.

All data sources

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

Colombia

  • 1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
  • 1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
  • 1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

No separate list is published for Barbados, Dominica, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.