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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	Colombia	Austria	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	8,039	273
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	8,059	274
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	8,090	275
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	8,130	276
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	8,166	278
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	8,217	279
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	8,274	280
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	8,317	281
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	8,344	282
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	8,370	283
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	8,390	285
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	8,410	286
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	8,438	287
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	8,476	288
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	8,527	289
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	8,594	290
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	8,680	291
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	8,791	291
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	8,847	292
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	8,890	293
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	8,930	294
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	8,969	294
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	9,004	295
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	9,107	295

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

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

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.