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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	Greece	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	10,618	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	10,662	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	10,718	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	10,757	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	10,783	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	10,809	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	10,841	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	10,874	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	10,901	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	10,930	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	10,959	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	10,973	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	10,957	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	10,898	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	10,819	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	10,747	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	10,677	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	10,633	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	10,612	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	10,590	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	10,579	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	10,556	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	10,499	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	10,437	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.

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.