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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	Burkina Faso	Austria
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	11,075	8,039
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	11,405	8,059
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	11,828	8,090
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	12,380	8,130
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	12,829	8,166
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	13,178	8,217
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	13,540	8,274
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	13,917	8,317
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	14,309	8,344
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	14,722	8,370
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	15,152	8,390
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	15,600	8,410
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	16,064	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	16,563	8,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	17,072	8,527
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	17,575	8,594
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	18,094	8,680
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	18,621	8,791
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	19,157	8,847
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	19,698	8,890
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	20,242	8,930
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	20,788	8,969
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	21,336	9,004
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	21,889	9,107

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

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

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