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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 BarbadosColombiaHaiti
27338,3658,121
27438,9118,279
27539,4118,430
27639,9188,580
27840,4168,739
27940,8998,900
28041,3749,061
28141,8629,216
28242,3249,364
28342,7819,508
28543,2649,652
28643,7719,553
28744,2259,670
28844,6609,793
28945,0819,922
29045,84610,047
29146,29010,254
29146,79610,486
29247,38510,647
29348,22210,788
29449,32610,933
29450,28311,077
29550,97811,215
29551,33211,349

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