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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 SudanRomaniaColombia
26,16822,41438,365
26,77122,26238,911
27,38722,10639,411
28,01721,93139,918
28,66221,82840,416
29,32121,70440,899
29,99621,57141,374
30,68621,44341,862
31,39321,12942,324
32,13720,77942,781
33,07820,60743,264
33,89120,48543,771
34,56820,38544,225
35,29320,29644,660
36,09320,22445,081
37,05820,15145,846
38,16520,05546,290
39,29419,93846,796
40,51219,82347,385
41,76419,71348,222
42,95219,62249,326
44,12119,49650,283
45,29019,35150,978
46,49819,26651,332

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

Romania

  • 1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
  • 1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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 Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.