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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosColombiaParaguay
27338,3655,366
27438,9115,473
27539,4115,579
27639,9185,683
27840,4165,786
27940,8995,886
28041,3745,984
28141,8626,080
28242,3246,173
28342,7816,264
28543,2646,352
28643,7716,438
28744,2256,522
28844,6606,605
28945,0816,688
29045,8466,769
29146,2906,850
29146,7966,930
29247,3857,012
29348,2227,095
29449,3267,179
29450,2837,263
29550,9787,348
29551,3327,432

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