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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 FasoMongolia
38,36511,0752,433
38,91111,4052,461
39,41111,8282,489
39,91812,3802,519
40,41612,8292,547
40,89913,1782,574
41,37413,5402,602
41,86213,9172,633
42,32414,3092,666
42,78114,7222,702
43,26415,1522,741
43,77115,6002,783
44,22516,0642,827
44,66016,5632,870
45,08117,0722,912
45,84617,5752,953
46,29018,0942,993
46,79618,6213,031
47,38519,1573,068
48,22219,6983,103
49,32620,2423,171
50,28320,7883,231
50,97821,3363,284
51,33221,8893,333

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