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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 ColombiaOmanBosnia & Herzegovina
38,3652,3483,811
38,9112,4033,901
39,4112,4573,919
39,9182,5103,923
40,4162,5623,940
40,8992,6133,975
41,3742,6633,991
41,8622,7133,993
42,3242,7643,990
42,7812,8163,987
43,2642,8713,985
43,7712,9283,983
44,2252,9863,980
44,6603,0473,977
45,0813,1103,973
45,8463,1743,968
46,2903,2403,963
46,7963,3073,957
47,3853,3753,951
48,2223,4443,944
49,3263,5123,937
50,2833,5823,929
50,9783,6513,921
51,3323,6963,876

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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