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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	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	7,666

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.

All data sources

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