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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	Burkina Faso	Colombia	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	273	11,075	38,365	627
Dec 31, 2000	274	11,405	38,911	659
Dec 31, 2001	275	11,828	39,411	691
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,380	39,918	724
Dec 31, 2003	278	12,829	40,416	757
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,178	40,899	850
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,540	41,374	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,917	41,862	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,309	42,324	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,722	42,781	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	285	15,152	43,264	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	286	15,600	43,771	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	287	16,064	44,225	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	288	16,563	44,660	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	289	17,072	45,081	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	290	17,575	45,846	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	291	18,094	46,290	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	291	18,621	46,796	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,157	47,385	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,698	48,222	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	294	20,242	49,326	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	294	20,788	50,283	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	295	21,336	50,978	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	295	21,889	51,332	2,559

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