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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	Mauritania
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	2,437
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	2,501
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	2,566
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	2,632
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	2,699
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	2,768
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	2,838
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	2,909
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	2,981
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	3,055
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	3,129
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	3,205
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	3,282
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	3,359
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	3,438
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	3,517
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	3,597
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	3,677
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	3,759
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	3,840
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	3,942
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	4,045
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	4,150
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	4,259

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