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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	Myanmar (Burma)	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	45,018	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	45,616	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	46,171	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	46,690	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,201	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	47,699	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,196	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,674	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	49,151	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,505	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,896	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	50,285	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	50,813	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	51,369	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	51,878	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	52,374	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	52,900	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	53,416	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	53,914	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	54,403	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	54,884	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	55,355	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	55,815	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	56,210	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

Myanmar (Burma)

1901-1938: "Trends of Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Burma 1870-1940", Journal of the Burma Research Society, 1964, p. 144
1938-1950: E.E. Hagen, On the Theory of Social Change, Dorsey, Homewood, Illinois, 1962, Table 18-1,

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.