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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosChileOmanColombia
27315,1402,34838,365
27415,3402,40338,911
27515,5132,45739,411
27615,6862,51039,918
27815,8592,56240,416
27916,0292,61340,899
28016,2222,66341,374
28116,3642,71341,862
28216,5362,76442,324
28316,7002,81642,781
28516,8642,87143,264
28616,9992,92843,771
28717,1892,98644,225
28817,3783,04744,660
28917,5453,11045,081
29017,7203,17445,846
29117,9043,24046,290
29118,0993,30746,796
29218,3503,37547,385
29318,6813,44448,222
29419,0353,51249,326
29419,3853,58250,283
29519,6043,65150,978
29519,7153,69651,332

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

Chile

  • 1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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