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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date DenmarkCongo - KinshasaColombia
5,32251,18138,365
5,33952,78238,911
5,35854,45339,411
5,37756,17039,918
5,39157,86040,416
5,40459,59940,899
5,42061,47441,374
5,43863,47941,862
5,46165,59042,324
5,49467,80042,781
5,52470,11443,264
5,54872,55043,771
5,57175,13844,225
5,59277,79244,660
5,61480,53445,081
5,64483,36845,846
5,68386,22946,290
5,73089,19346,796
5,76692,20947,385
5,79595,23248,222
5,81898,32049,326
5,831101,49950,283
5,855104,76750,978
5,907108,17151,332

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