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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	Romania	Oman	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	22,414	2,348	273
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	22,262	2,403	274
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	22,106	2,457	275
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	21,931	2,510	276
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	21,828	2,562	278
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	21,704	2,613	279
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	21,571	2,663	280
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	21,443	2,713	281
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	21,129	2,764	282
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	20,779	2,816	283
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	20,607	2,871	285
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	20,485	2,928	286
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	20,385	2,986	287
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	20,296	3,047	288
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	20,224	3,110	289
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	20,151	3,174	290
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	20,055	3,240	291
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	19,938	3,307	291
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	19,823	3,375	292
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	19,713	3,444	293
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	19,622	3,512	294
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	19,496	3,582	294
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	19,351	3,651	295
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	19,266	3,696	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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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