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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 - KinshasaColombiaQatar
51,18138,365627
52,78238,911659
54,45339,411691
56,17039,918724
57,86040,416757
59,59940,899850
61,47441,3741,001
63,47941,8621,153
65,59042,3241,306
67,80042,7811,460
70,11443,2641,615
72,55043,7711,770
75,13844,2251,904
77,79244,6602,010
80,53445,0812,103
83,36845,8462,187
86,22946,2902,261
89,19346,7962,326
92,20947,3852,384
95,23248,2222,435
98,32049,3262,480
101,49950,2832,519
104,76750,9782,553
108,17151,3322,559

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, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.