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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	Colombia	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	39,252

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