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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	Malawi
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	11,310
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	11,658
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	12,020
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	12,395
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	12,786
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	13,196
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	13,625
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	14,072
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	14,539
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	15,026
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	15,525
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	16,028
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	16,534
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	17,042
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	17,551
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	18,060
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	18,571
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	19,086
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	19,603
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	20,122
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	20,640
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	21,159
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	21,677
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	22,239

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

Malawi

1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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