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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	Albania	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	3,085	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	3,065	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	3,047	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	3,038	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	3,026	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	3,014	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	2,998	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	2,979	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	2,957	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	2,934	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	2,915	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	2,900	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	2,892	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	2,888	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	2,882	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	2,876	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	2,868	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	2,863	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	2,861	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	2,854	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	2,842	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	2,825	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	2,799	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	2,787	6,291

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, Albania, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.