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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 ColombiaBurkina FasoAlbania
38,36511,0753,085
38,91111,4053,065
39,41111,8283,047
39,91812,3803,038
40,41612,8293,026
40,89913,1783,014
41,37413,5402,998
41,86213,9172,979
42,32414,3092,957
42,78114,7222,934
43,26415,1522,915
43,77115,6002,900
44,22516,0642,892
44,66016,5632,888
45,08117,0722,882
45,84617,5752,876
46,29018,0942,868
46,79618,6212,863
47,38519,1572,861
48,22219,6982,854
49,32620,2422,842
50,28320,7882,825
50,97821,3362,799
51,33221,8892,787

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 Burkina Faso, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.