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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	Dominica	Congo - Kinshasa	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	70	51,181	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	71	52,782	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	71	54,453	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	72	56,170	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	72	57,860	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	72	59,599	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	72	61,474	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	72	63,479	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	72	65,590	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	73	67,800	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	73	70,114	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	73	72,550	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	73	75,138	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	73	77,792	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	73	80,534	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	73	83,368	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	74	86,229	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	74	89,193	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	74	92,209	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	74	95,232	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	75	98,320	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	75	101,499	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	76	104,767	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	76	108,171	51,332

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.

All data sources

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, Dominica, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.