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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Germany	Colombia	Sierra Leone
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	81,439	38,365	3,736
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	81,474	38,911	3,809
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	81,534	39,411	4,043
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	81,595	39,918	4,287
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	81,566	40,416	4,466
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	81,473	40,899	4,602
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	81,354	41,374	4,708
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	81,190	41,862	4,818
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	81,009	42,324	4,918
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	80,781	42,781	5,023
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	80,500	43,264	5,132
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	80,301	43,771	5,246
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	80,292	44,225	5,364
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	80,443	44,660	5,486
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	80,663	45,081	5,613
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	81,000	45,846	5,744
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	81,704	46,290	5,879
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	82,366	46,796	6,019
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	82,674	47,385	6,163
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	82,923	48,222	6,312
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	83,110	49,326	6,461
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	83,178	50,283	6,611
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	83,213	50,978	6,761
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	83,811	51,332	6,910

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.

All data sources

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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, Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.