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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	Cuba
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	11,108
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	11,147
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	11,179
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	11,210
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	11,241
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	11,260
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	11,268
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	11,266
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	11,261
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	11,258
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	11,260
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	11,262
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	11,264
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	11,262
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	11,250
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	11,238
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	11,214
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	11,180
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	11,147
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	11,116
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	11,105
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	11,089
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	11,046
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	11,003

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

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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