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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	Belgium	Burkina Faso	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,227	11,075	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,252	11,405	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,288	11,828	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,334	12,380	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,377	12,829	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,422	13,178	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,480	13,540	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,549	13,917	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,627	14,309	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,711	14,722	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,797	15,152	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,897	15,600	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,039	16,064	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,108	16,563	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,160	17,072	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,210	17,575	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,275	18,094	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,332	18,621	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,376	19,157	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,429	19,698	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,491	20,242	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,546	20,788	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,594	21,336	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,695	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

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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.