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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Austria	Burkina Faso	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,039	11,075	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,059	11,405	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,090	11,828	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,130	12,380	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,166	12,829	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,217	13,178	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	8,274	13,540	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,317	13,917	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,344	14,309	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,370	14,722	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,390	15,152	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	8,410	15,600	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	8,438	16,064	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,476	16,563	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,527	17,072	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,594	17,575	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,680	18,094	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,791	18,621	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,847	19,157	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,890	19,698	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,930	20,242	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,969	20,788	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,004	21,336	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,107	21,889	51,332

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

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

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