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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Jordan	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,591	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,700	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,811	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,923	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,037	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,161	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,295	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,765	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,243	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,397	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,538	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,680	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,840	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,952	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,706	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,839	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,506	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,863	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,066	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,273	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,480	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,628	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,716	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,849	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.

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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

Jordan

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
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.