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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 CameroonOmanColombia
15,4832,34838,365
15,9132,40338,911
16,3542,45739,411
16,8152,51039,918
17,2892,56240,416
17,7642,61340,899
18,2492,66341,374
18,7462,71341,862
19,2782,76442,324
19,8432,81642,781
20,4192,87143,264
21,0022,92843,771
21,5862,98644,225
22,1813,04744,660
22,8003,11045,081
23,5133,17445,846
24,2733,24046,290
24,9953,30746,796
25,6803,37547,385
26,3733,44448,222
27,1143,51249,326
27,8783,58250,283
28,6633,65150,978
29,4173,69651,332

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 Cameroon, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.