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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 ColombiaPhilippines
38,36579,346
38,91181,131
39,41183,023
39,91884,876
40,41686,697
40,89988,568
41,37490,418
41,86292,253
42,32494,098
42,78195,923
43,26497,627
43,77199,317
44,225100,999
44,660102,618
45,081104,299
45,846106,076
46,290107,868
46,796109,493
47,385111,094
48,222112,843
49,326114,636
50,283117,026
50,978119,473
51,332121,234

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

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.