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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	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	5,458

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

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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