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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	Saudi Arabia	Oman	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,964	2,348	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	20,426	2,403	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,956	2,457	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,549	2,510	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,189	2,562	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,850	2,613	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,516	2,663	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	24,178	2,713	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	24,841	2,764	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,518	2,816	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,227	2,871	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,068	2,928	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,810	2,986	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,516	3,047	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,220	3,110	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,936	3,174	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,646	3,240	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	31,360	3,307	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	32,184	3,375	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	32,869	3,444	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	33,661	3,512	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	34,542	3,582	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,651	3,651	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,081	3,696	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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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