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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 - KinshasaColombiaSudan
51,18138,36526,168
52,78238,91126,771
54,45339,41127,387
56,17039,91828,017
57,86040,41628,662
59,59940,89929,321
61,47441,37429,996
63,47941,86230,686
65,59042,32431,393
67,80042,78132,137
70,11443,26433,078
72,55043,77133,891
75,13844,22534,568
77,79244,66035,293
80,53445,08136,093
83,36845,84637,058
86,22946,29038,165
89,19346,79639,294
92,20947,38540,512
95,23248,22241,764
98,32049,32642,952
101,49950,28344,121
104,76750,97845,290
108,17151,33246,498

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