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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	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	1,883

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