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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 LithuaniaCongo - KinshasaColombia
3,41951,18138,365
3,39552,78238,911
3,36754,45339,411
3,34056,17039,918
3,31357,86040,416
3,27659,59940,899
3,22361,47441,374
3,17263,47941,862
3,13465,59042,324
3,10267,80042,781
3,06870,11443,264
3,00472,55043,771
2,93775,13844,225
2,89877,79244,660
2,86980,53445,081
2,84483,36845,846
2,81886,22946,290
2,78289,19346,796
2,74492,20947,385
2,71895,23248,222
2,71098,32049,326
2,711101,49950,283
2,724104,76750,978
2,748108,17151,332

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