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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	Sierra Leone	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,736	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,809	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,043	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,287	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,466	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,602	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	280	4,708	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	281	4,818	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	282	4,918	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	283	5,023	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	5,132	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	286	5,246	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	287	5,364	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	288	5,486	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	289	5,613	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,744	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,879	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	291	6,019	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	292	6,163	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	293	6,312	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	6,461	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	294	6,611	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	295	6,761	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	295	6,910	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

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, Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.