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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 ColombiaCongo - KinshasaSudan
38,36551,18126,168
38,91152,78226,771
39,41154,45327,387
39,91856,17028,017
40,41657,86028,662
40,89959,59929,321
41,37461,47429,996
41,86263,47930,686
42,32465,59031,393
42,78167,80032,137
43,26470,11433,078
43,77172,55033,891
44,22575,13834,568
44,66077,79235,293
45,08180,53436,093
45,84683,36837,058
46,29086,22938,165
46,79689,19339,294
47,38592,20940,512
48,22295,23241,764
49,32698,32042,952
50,283101,49944,121
50,978104,76745,290
51,332108,17146,498

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.