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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 - KinshasaEstoniaColombia
51,1811,37838,365
52,7821,40038,911
54,4531,39139,411
56,1701,38239,918
57,8601,37440,416
59,5991,36540,899
61,4741,35741,374
63,4791,34941,862
65,5901,34142,324
67,8001,33742,781
70,1141,33443,264
72,5501,33243,771
75,1381,32844,225
77,7921,32444,660
80,5341,31945,081
83,3681,31445,846
86,2291,31246,290
89,1931,31446,796
92,2091,31447,385
95,2321,31848,222
98,3201,32349,326
101,4991,32750,283
104,7671,32950,978
108,1711,33051,332

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