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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	Iceland	Burkina Faso	Colombia	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	277	11,075	38,365	273
Dec 31, 2000	281	11,405	38,911	274
Dec 31, 2001	285	11,828	39,411	275
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,380	39,918	276
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,829	40,416	278
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,178	40,899	279
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,540	41,374	280
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,917	41,862	281
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,309	42,324	282
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,722	42,781	283
Dec 31, 2009	319	15,152	43,264	285
Dec 31, 2010	318	15,600	43,771	286
Dec 31, 2011	319	16,064	44,225	287
Dec 31, 2012	321	16,563	44,660	288
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,072	45,081	289
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,575	45,846	290
Dec 31, 2015	331	18,094	46,290	291
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,621	46,796	291
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,157	47,385	292
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,698	48,222	293
Dec 31, 2019	361	20,242	49,326	294
Dec 31, 2020	366	20,788	50,283	294
Dec 31, 2021	372	21,336	50,978	295
Dec 31, 2022	380	21,889	51,332	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

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.

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 Burkina Faso, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.