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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Belgium	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,227	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,252	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,288	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,334	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,377	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,422	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,480	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,549	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,627	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,711	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,797	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,897	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	319	11,039	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	321	11,108	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	324	11,160	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	327	11,210	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	331	11,275	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,332	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,376	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	353	11,429	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	361	11,491	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	366	11,546	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	372	11,594	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	380	11,695	51,332

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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