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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	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	56,210

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

Myanmar (Burma)

1901-1938: "Trends of Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Burma 1870-1940", Journal of the Burma Research Society, 1964, p. 144
1938-1950: E.E. Hagen, On the Theory of Social Change, Dorsey, Homewood, Illinois, 1962, Table 18-1,

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