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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 ColombiaOmanSierra Leone
38,3652,3483,736
38,9112,4033,809
39,4112,4574,043
39,9182,5104,287
40,4162,5624,466
40,8992,6134,602
41,3742,6634,708
41,8622,7134,818
42,3242,7644,918
42,7812,8165,023
43,2642,8715,132
43,7712,9285,246
44,2252,9865,364
44,6603,0475,486
45,0813,1105,613
45,8463,1745,744
46,2903,2405,879
46,7963,3076,019
47,3853,3756,163
48,2223,4446,312
49,3263,5126,461
50,2833,5826,611
50,9783,6516,761
51,3323,6966,910

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, Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.