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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 ColombiaOmanDenmark
38,3652,3485,322
38,9112,4035,339
39,4112,4575,358
39,9182,5105,377
40,4162,5625,391
40,8992,6135,404
41,3742,6635,420
41,8622,7135,438
42,3242,7645,461
42,7812,8165,494
43,2642,8715,524
43,7712,9285,548
44,2252,9865,571
44,6603,0475,592
45,0813,1105,614
45,8463,1745,644
46,2903,2405,683
46,7963,3075,730
47,3853,3755,766
48,2223,4445,795
49,3263,5125,818
50,2833,5825,831
50,9783,6515,855
51,3323,6965,907

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, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.