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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	Germany	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	81,439	273
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	81,474	274
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	81,534	275
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	81,595	276
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	81,566	278
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	81,473	279
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	81,354	280
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	81,190	281
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	81,009	282
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	80,781	283
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	80,500	285
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	80,301	286
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	80,292	287
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	80,443	288
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	80,663	289
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	81,000	290
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	81,704	291
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	82,366	291
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	82,674	292
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	82,923	293
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	83,110	294
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	83,178	294
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	83,213	295
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	83,811	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.

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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