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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	Iceland	Colombia	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	38,365	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	38,911	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	39,411	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	39,918	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	40,416	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	40,899	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	41,374	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	41,862	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	42,324	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	42,781	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	43,264	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	43,771	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	44,225	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	44,660	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	45,081	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	45,846	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	46,290	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	46,796	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	47,385	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	48,222	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	49,326	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	50,283	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	50,978	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	51,332	46,498

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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