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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 ColombiaOmanCameroon
38,3652,34815,483
38,9112,40315,913
39,4112,45716,354
39,9182,51016,815
40,4162,56217,289
40,8992,61317,764
41,3742,66318,249
41,8622,71318,746
42,3242,76419,278
42,7812,81619,843
43,2642,87120,419
43,7712,92821,002
44,2252,98621,586
44,6603,04722,181
45,0813,11022,800
45,8463,17423,513
46,2903,24024,273
46,7963,30724,995
47,3853,37525,680
48,2223,44426,373
49,3263,51227,114
50,2833,58227,878
50,9783,65128,663
51,3323,69629,417

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 Oman, Cameroon; the database as a whole is cited above.