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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 ColombiaOmanLibya
38,3652,3484,993
38,9112,4035,116
39,4112,4575,237
39,9182,5105,357
40,4162,5625,476
40,8992,6135,595
41,3742,6635,715
41,8622,7135,835
42,3242,7645,967
42,7812,8166,115
43,2642,8716,270
43,7712,9286,432
44,2252,9866,144
44,6603,0475,849
45,0813,1106,010
45,8463,1746,163
46,2903,2406,291
46,7963,3076,415
47,3853,3756,549
48,2223,4446,689
49,3263,5126,826
50,2833,5826,960
50,9783,6517,088
51,3323,6967,169

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