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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date ColombiaOmanRomaniaBarbados
38,3652,34822,414273
38,9112,40322,262274
39,4112,45722,106275
39,9182,51021,931276
40,4162,56221,828278
40,8992,61321,704279
41,3742,66321,571280
41,8622,71321,443281
42,3242,76421,129282
42,7812,81620,779283
43,2642,87120,607285
43,7712,92820,485286
44,2252,98620,385287
44,6603,04720,296288
45,0813,11020,224289
45,8463,17420,151290
46,2903,24020,055291
46,7963,30719,938291
47,3853,37519,823292
48,2223,44419,713293
49,3263,51219,622294
50,2833,58219,496294
50,9783,65119,351295
51,3323,69619,266295

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.

All data sources

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

Romania

  • 1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
  • 1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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