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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 Dominican RepublicColombiaLebanon
8,17538,3653,460
8,30138,9113,499
8,42739,4113,554
8,55339,9183,610
8,67840,4163,665
8,80140,8993,721
8,92441,3743,777
9,04441,8623,853
9,16442,3243,954
9,28142,7814,036
9,39843,2644,082
9,51243,7714,097
9,62744,2254,115
9,74244,6604,206
9,85545,0814,696
9,96545,8465,365
10,07246,2905,640
10,17746,7965,688
10,28147,3855,680
10,38548,2225,562
10,48749,3265,331
10,58750,2834,986
10,68650,9784,802
10,79351,3324,713

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

Lebanon

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Dominican Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.