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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 ColombiaOmanIsrael
38,3652,3485,927
38,9112,4036,088
39,4112,4576,236
39,9182,5106,366
40,4162,5626,484
40,8992,6136,603
41,3742,6636,723
41,8622,7136,846
42,3242,7646,972
42,7812,8167,100
43,2642,8717,226
43,7712,9287,360
44,2252,9867,498
44,6603,0477,637
45,0813,1107,781
45,8463,1747,931
46,2903,2408,091
46,7963,3078,251
47,3853,3758,412
48,2223,4448,576
49,3263,5128,742
50,2833,5828,899
50,9783,6519,047
51,3323,6969,188

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

Israel

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91

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