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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	Luxembourg	Romania	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	433	22,414	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	438	22,262	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	443	22,106	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	448	21,931	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	454	21,828	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	460	21,704	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	467	21,571	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	474	21,443	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	482	21,129	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	491	20,779	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	500	20,607	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	509	20,485	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	521	20,385	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	533	20,296	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	547	20,224	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	560	20,151	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	571	20,055	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	586	19,938	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	599	19,823	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	610	19,713	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	623	19,622	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	633	19,496	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	643	19,351	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	651	19,266	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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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