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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 DominicaBurkina FasoColombia
7011,07538,365
7111,40538,911
7111,82839,411
7212,38039,918
7212,82940,416
7213,17840,899
7213,54041,374
7213,91741,862
7214,30942,324
7314,72242,781
7315,15243,264
7315,60043,771
7316,06444,225
7316,56344,660
7317,07245,081
7317,57545,846
7418,09446,290
7418,62146,796
7419,15747,385
7419,69848,222
7520,24249,326
7520,78850,283
7621,33650,978
7621,88951,332

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 Dominica, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.