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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	Guinea	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,610	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,780	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,821	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,906	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,121	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,317	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	8,478	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,650	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,860	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	9,091	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	9,327	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	9,571	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	9,825	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,084	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,351	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,632	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,924	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,225	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,534	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,855	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	12,160	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	12,469	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	12,778	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	13,087	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.

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