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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	Belarus	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,064	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,034	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,000	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	9,955	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	9,905	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	9,856	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	9,807	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	9,764	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	9,734	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	9,713	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	9,697	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	9,681	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	9,662	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	9,643	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	9,624	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	9,605	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,585	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,564	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	9,542	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	9,519	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	9,495	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	9,469	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,442	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,400	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, Belarus; the database as a whole is cited above.