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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosUnited Arab EmiratesOmanColombia
2733,1012,34838,365
2743,2842,40338,911
2753,4582,45739,411
2763,6132,51039,918
2783,7542,56240,416
2793,8822,61340,899
2804,0002,66341,374
2814,5322,71341,862
2825,6232,76442,324
2837,2772,81642,781
2858,1642,87143,264
2868,1522,92843,771
2878,4382,98644,225
2888,7473,04744,660
2899,0773,11045,081
2909,3213,17445,846
2919,4613,24046,290
2919,5873,30746,796
2929,6993,37547,385
2939,7963,44448,222
2949,8793,51249,326
2949,9533,58250,283
29510,0183,65150,978
29510,0993,69651,332

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.

All data sources

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 Barbados, United Arab Emirates, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.