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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 BarbadosMaliOmanColombia
27310,5962,34838,365
27410,8332,40338,911
27510,8902,45739,411
27611,0072,51039,918
27811,3072,56240,416
27911,5792,61340,899
28011,8042,66341,374
28112,0432,71341,862
28212,3372,76442,324
28312,6572,81642,781
28512,9862,87143,264
28613,3252,92843,771
28713,6792,98644,225
28814,0403,04744,660
28914,4123,11045,081
29014,8033,17445,846
29115,2103,24046,290
29115,6293,30746,796
29216,0603,37547,385
29316,5073,44448,222
29416,9673,51249,326
29417,4423,58250,283
29517,9303,65150,978
29518,4943,69651,332

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