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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	Haiti	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,121	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,279	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,430	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,580	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,739	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,900	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	9,061	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	9,216	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	9,364	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	9,508	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	9,652	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	9,553	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	9,670	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	9,793	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	9,922	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,047	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,254	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	10,486	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,647	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,788	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,933	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,077	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,215	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,349	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, Haiti; the database as a whole is cited above.