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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	Nepal
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	23,087
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	23,487
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	23,887
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	24,273
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	24,645
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	24,989
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	25,255
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	25,484
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	25,732
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	25,998
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	26,298
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	26,664
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	27,081
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	27,505
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	27,917
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	28,311
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	28,678
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	29,034
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	29,384
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	29,718
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	30,057
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	30,595
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	31,311
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	31,845

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

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