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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	Venezuela
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	23,188
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	23,601
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	24,011
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	24,425
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	24,841
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	25,255
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	25,667
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	26,079
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	26,589
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	27,098
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	27,510
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	27,920
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	28,327
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	28,722
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	29,111
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	29,418
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	29,693
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	29,961
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	29,856
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	28,858
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	27,921
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	27,871
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	28,316
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	28,418

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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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