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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Netherlands	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,817	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	15,932	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	16,052	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	16,155	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	16,231	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	16,288	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	16,326	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	16,352	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	16,388	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	16,452	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	16,536	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	16,621	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	16,699	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	16,761	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	16,810	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	16,871	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	16,946	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	17,036	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	17,137	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	17,238	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	17,351	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	17,448	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,539	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,709	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

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

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.