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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	Colombia	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	273	70	38,365	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	274	71	38,911	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	275	71	39,411	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	276	72	39,918	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	278	72	40,416	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	279	72	40,899	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	280	72	41,374	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	281	72	41,862	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	282	72	42,324	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	283	73	42,781	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	285	73	43,264	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	286	73	43,771	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	287	73	44,225	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	288	73	44,660	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	289	73	45,081	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	290	73	45,846	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	291	74	46,290	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	291	74	46,796	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	292	74	47,385	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	293	74	48,222	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	294	75	49,326	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	294	75	50,283	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	295	76	50,978	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	295	76	51,332	7,666

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