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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 - KinshasaColombiaYemen
51,18138,36516,728
52,78238,91117,236
54,45339,41117,762
56,17039,91818,310
57,86040,41618,855
59,59940,89919,410
61,47441,37420,000
63,47941,86220,611
65,59042,32421,236
67,80042,78121,878
70,11443,26422,533
72,55043,77123,195
75,13844,22523,880
77,79244,66024,594
80,53445,08125,311
83,36845,84626,020
86,22946,29026,698
89,19346,79627,347
92,20947,38527,985
95,23248,22228,608
98,32049,32629,216
101,49950,28329,811
104,76750,97830,399
108,17151,33231,058

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