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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Thailand	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	59,748	273
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	60,165	274
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	60,746	275
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	61,323	276
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	61,884	278
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	62,425	279
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	62,956	280
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	63,467	281
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	63,937	282
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	64,381	283
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	64,804	285
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	65,208	286
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	65,599	287
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	65,970	288
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	66,332	289
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	66,673	290
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	66,975	291
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	67,250	291
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	67,506	292
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	67,750	293
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	67,975	294
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	68,180	294
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	68,366	295
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	68,457	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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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