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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 ParaguayCongo - KinshasaColombia
5,36651,18138,365
5,47352,78238,911
5,57954,45339,411
5,68356,17039,918
5,78657,86040,416
5,88659,59940,899
5,98461,47441,374
6,08063,47941,862
6,17365,59042,324
6,26467,80042,781
6,35270,11443,264
6,43872,55043,771
6,52275,13844,225
6,60577,79244,660
6,68880,53445,081
6,76983,36845,846
6,85086,22946,290
6,93089,19346,796
7,01292,20947,385
7,09595,23248,222
7,17998,32049,326
7,263101,49950,283
7,348104,76750,978
7,432108,17151,332

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