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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	Bolivia
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	8,007
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	8,177
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	8,351
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	8,529
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	8,711
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	8,895
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	9,081
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	9,268
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	9,457
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	9,647
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	9,836
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	10,024
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	10,211
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	10,397
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	10,581
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	10,763
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	10,942
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	11,118
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	11,289
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	11,456
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	11,621
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	11,775
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	11,917
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	12,060

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

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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