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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 ColombiaMoldovaMalta
38,3654,244387
38,9114,199390
39,4114,154393
39,9184,108396
40,4164,059398
40,8994,013401
41,3743,966404
41,8623,919405
42,3243,873406
42,7813,829409
43,2643,788412
43,7713,748414
44,2253,709416
44,6603,671420
45,0813,633426
45,8463,595435
46,2903,558445
46,7963,522455
47,3853,485468
48,2223,448485
49,3263,412504
50,2833,376516
50,9783,339518
51,3323,570530

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 Moldova, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.