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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 - KinshasaColombiaParaguay
51,18138,3655,366
52,78238,9115,473
54,45339,4115,579
56,17039,9185,683
57,86040,4165,786
59,59940,8995,886
61,47441,3745,984
63,47941,8626,080
65,59042,3246,173
67,80042,7816,264
70,11443,2646,352
72,55043,7716,438
75,13844,2256,522
77,79244,6606,605
80,53445,0816,688
83,36845,8466,769
86,22946,2906,850
89,19346,7966,930
92,20947,3857,012
95,23248,2227,095
98,32049,3267,179
101,49950,2837,263
104,76750,9787,348
108,17151,3327,432

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

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