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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 FasoNorth Macedonia
38,36511,0752,006
38,91111,4052,017
39,41111,8282,026
39,91812,3802,011
40,41612,8292,018
40,89913,1782,024
41,37413,5402,028
41,86213,9172,031
42,32414,3092,035
42,78114,7222,038
43,26415,1522,042
43,77115,6002,046
44,22516,0642,049
44,66016,5632,052
45,08117,0722,055
45,84617,5752,058
46,29018,0942,061
46,79618,6212,063
47,38519,1572,065
48,22219,6982,067
49,32620,2422,068
50,28320,7882,065
50,97821,3362,057
51,33221,8892,048

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.

All data sources

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

North Macedonia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.