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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	Serbia
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	7,611
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	7,587
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	7,574
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	7,570
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	7,551
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	7,533
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	7,510
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	7,481
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	7,451
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	7,419
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	7,389
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	7,304
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	7,269
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	7,234
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	7,199
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	7,162
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	7,124
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	7,087
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	7,048
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	7,010
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	6,964
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	6,898
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	6,833

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

Serbia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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