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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Oman	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	2,348	22,414	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	2,403	22,262	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	2,457	22,106	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	2,510	21,931	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	2,562	21,828	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	2,613	21,704	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	2,663	21,571	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	2,713	21,443	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	2,764	21,129	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	2,816	20,779	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	2,871	20,607	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	2,928	20,485	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	2,986	20,385	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	3,047	20,296	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	3,110	20,224	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	3,174	20,151	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	3,240	20,055	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	3,307	19,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	3,375	19,823	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	3,444	19,713	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	3,512	19,622	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	3,582	19,496	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	3,651	19,351	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	3,696	19,266	108,171

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, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.