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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 ColombiaNepal
38,36523,087
38,91123,487
39,41123,887
39,91824,273
40,41624,645
40,89924,989
41,37425,255
41,86225,484
42,32425,732
42,78125,998
43,26426,298
43,77126,664
44,22527,081
44,66027,505
45,08127,917
45,84628,311
46,29028,678
46,79629,034
47,38529,384
48,22229,718
49,32630,057
50,28330,595
50,97831,311
51,33231,845

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 Nepal; the database as a whole is cited above.