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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 ColombiaAlbaniaCongo - Kinshasa
38,3653,08551,181
38,9113,06552,782
39,4113,04754,453
39,9183,03856,170
40,4163,02657,860
40,8993,01459,599
41,3742,99861,474
41,8622,97963,479
42,3242,95765,590
42,7812,93467,800
43,2642,91570,114
43,7712,90072,550
44,2252,89275,138
44,6602,88877,792
45,0812,88280,534
45,8462,87683,368
46,2902,86886,229
46,7962,86389,193
47,3852,86192,209
48,2222,85495,232
49,3262,84298,320
50,2832,825101,499
50,9782,799104,767
51,3322,787108,171

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 Albania, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.