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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 FasoCambodia
38,36511,07512,122
38,91111,40512,317
39,41111,82812,504
39,91812,38012,691
40,41612,82912,881
40,89913,17813,076
41,37413,54013,276
41,86213,91713,461
42,32414,30913,630
42,78114,72213,808
43,26415,15213,990
43,77115,60014,162
44,22516,06414,322
44,66016,56314,480
45,08117,07214,637
45,84617,57514,793
46,29018,09414,994
46,79618,62115,238
47,38519,15715,480
48,22219,69815,717
49,32620,24215,944
50,28320,78816,149
50,97821,33616,338
51,33221,88916,514

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