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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 - KinshasaMoldovaColombia
51,1814,24438,365
52,7824,19938,911
54,4534,15439,411
56,1704,10839,918
57,8604,05940,416
59,5994,01340,899
61,4743,96641,374
63,4793,91941,862
65,5903,87342,324
67,8003,82942,781
70,1143,78843,264
72,5503,74843,771
75,1383,70944,225
77,7923,67144,660
80,5343,63345,081
83,3683,59545,846
86,2293,55846,290
89,1933,52246,796
92,2093,48547,385
95,2323,44848,222
98,3203,41249,326
101,4993,37650,283
104,7673,33950,978
108,1713,57051,332

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