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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 ColombiaOmanMorocco
38,3652,34828,400
38,9112,40328,744
39,4112,45729,094
39,9182,51029,447
40,4162,56229,806
40,8992,61330,169
41,3742,66330,552
41,8622,71330,953
42,3242,76431,354
42,7812,81631,754
43,2642,87132,154
43,7712,92832,553
44,2252,98632,951
44,6603,04733,346
45,0813,11033,737
45,8463,17434,124
46,2903,24034,511
46,7963,30734,898
47,3853,37535,279
48,2223,44435,653
49,3263,51236,018
50,2833,58236,375
50,9783,65136,723
51,3323,69637,101

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