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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	South Korea	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	46,617	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	47,008	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	47,370	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	47,645	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,892	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	48,083	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,185	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,438	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	48,684	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,055	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,308	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	49,554	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	49,937	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	50,200	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	50,429	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	50,747	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	51,015	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	51,218	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	51,362	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	51,585	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	51,765	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	51,836	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	51,745	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,731	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

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: 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.