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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	Dominica	Colombia	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	70	38,365	387
Dec 31, 2000	71	38,911	390
Dec 31, 2001	71	39,411	393
Dec 31, 2002	72	39,918	396
Dec 31, 2003	72	40,416	398
Dec 31, 2004	72	40,899	401
Dec 31, 2005	72	41,374	404
Dec 31, 2006	72	41,862	405
Dec 31, 2007	72	42,324	406
Dec 31, 2008	73	42,781	409
Dec 31, 2009	73	43,264	412
Dec 31, 2010	73	43,771	414
Dec 31, 2011	73	44,225	416
Dec 31, 2012	73	44,660	420
Dec 31, 2013	73	45,081	426
Dec 31, 2014	73	45,846	435
Dec 31, 2015	74	46,290	445
Dec 31, 2016	74	46,796	455
Dec 31, 2017	74	47,385	468
Dec 31, 2018	74	48,222	485
Dec 31, 2019	75	49,326	504
Dec 31, 2020	75	50,283	516
Dec 31, 2021	76	50,978	518
Dec 31, 2022	76	51,332	530

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 Dominica, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.