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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Colombia	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	11,695

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.

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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

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.