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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosColombiaGuinea
27338,3657,610
27438,9117,780
27539,4117,821
27639,9187,906
27840,4168,121
27940,8998,317
28041,3748,478
28141,8628,650
28242,3248,860
28342,7819,091
28543,2649,327
28643,7719,571
28744,2259,825
28844,66010,084
28945,08110,351
29045,84610,632
29146,29010,924
29146,79611,225
29247,38511,534
29348,22211,855
29449,32612,160
29450,28312,469
29550,97812,778
29551,33213,087

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, Guinea; the database as a whole is cited above.