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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	Côte d’Ivoire
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	17,106
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	17,552
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	18,010
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	18,438
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	18,895
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	19,432
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	19,968
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	20,512
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	21,097
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	21,699
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	22,285
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	22,845
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	23,343
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	23,879
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	24,492
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	25,104
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	25,719
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	26,348
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	26,984
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	27,614
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	28,252
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	28,895
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	29,546
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	30,279

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

No separate list is published for Barbados, Côte d’Ivoire; the database as a whole is cited above.