Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Indonesia	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	208,105	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	211,408	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	214,475	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	217,516	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	220,549	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	224,473	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	227,534	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	230,739	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	233,918	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	237,056	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	240,140	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	243,171	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	246,150	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	249,086	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	251,947	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	254,702	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	257,351	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	259,906	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	262,379	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	264,789	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	267,142	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	269,437	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	271,674	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	273,409	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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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; the database as a whole is cited above.