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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Japan	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	126,512	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	126,755	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	127,056	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	127,324	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	127,558	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	127,658	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	127,679	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	127,762	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	127,904	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	127,969	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	127,958	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	127,967	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	127,755	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	127,476	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	127,257	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	127,186	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	127,034	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	126,857	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	126,631	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	126,368	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	126,092	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	125,634	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	125,427	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	124,762	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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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.