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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 FasoHong Kong SAR China
38,36511,0756,587
38,91111,4056,646
39,41111,8286,695
39,91812,3806,725
40,41612,8296,712
40,89913,1786,765
41,37413,5406,794
41,86213,9176,838
42,32414,3096,897
42,78114,7226,938
43,26415,1526,953
43,77115,6007,004
44,22516,0647,052
44,66016,5637,130
45,08117,0727,159
45,84617,5757,209
46,29018,0947,271
46,79618,6217,316
47,38519,1577,372
48,22219,6987,432
49,32620,2427,487
50,28320,7887,460
50,97821,3367,392
51,33221,8897,387

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, Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.