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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 ColombiaParaguayMalta
38,3655,366387
38,9115,473390
39,4115,579393
39,9185,683396
40,4165,786398
40,8995,886401
41,3745,984404
41,8626,080405
42,3246,173406
42,7816,264409
43,2646,352412
43,7716,438414
44,2256,522416
44,6606,605420
45,0816,688426
45,8466,769435
46,2906,850445
46,7966,930455
47,3857,012468
48,2227,095485
49,3267,179504
50,2837,263516
50,9787,348518
51,3327,432530

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 Paraguay, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.