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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	Estonia	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	1,378	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	1,400	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	1,391	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	1,382	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	1,374	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	1,365	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	1,357	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	1,349	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	1,341	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	1,337	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	1,334	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	1,332	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	1,328	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	1,324	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	1,319	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	1,314	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	1,312	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	1,314	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	1,314	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	1,318	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	1,323	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	1,327	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	1,329	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	1,330	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

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