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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 Congo - KinshasaColombiaLebanon
51,18138,3653,460
52,78238,9113,499
54,45339,4113,554
56,17039,9183,610
57,86040,4163,665
59,59940,8993,721
61,47441,3743,777
63,47941,8623,853
65,59042,3243,954
67,80042,7814,036
70,11443,2644,082
72,55043,7714,097
75,13844,2254,115
77,79244,6604,206
80,53445,0814,696
83,36845,8465,365
86,22946,2905,640
89,19346,7965,688
92,20947,3855,680
95,23248,2225,562
98,32049,3265,331
101,49950,2834,986
104,76750,9784,802
108,17151,3324,713

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

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

Lebanon

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.