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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 CambodiaBurkina FasoColombia
12,12211,07538,365
12,31711,40538,911
12,50411,82839,411
12,69112,38039,918
12,88112,82940,416
13,07613,17840,899
13,27613,54041,374
13,46113,91741,862
13,63014,30942,324
13,80814,72242,781
13,99015,15243,264
14,16215,60043,771
14,32216,06444,225
14,48016,56344,660
14,63717,07245,081
14,79317,57545,846
14,99418,09446,290
15,23818,62146,796
15,48019,15747,385
15,71719,69848,222
15,94420,24249,326
16,14920,78850,283
16,33821,33650,978
16,51421,88951,332

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