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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	Burundi	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	6,128	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	6,282	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	6,466	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	6,670	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	6,897	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,167	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,439	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,709	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,991	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,318	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,741	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	9,140	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	9,440	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	9,748	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,069	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,380	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,577	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	10,721	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,955	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,229	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,602	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,987	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	12,384	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	12,795	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

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, Burundi; the database as a whole is cited above.