Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Colombia	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,365	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,911	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	285	39,411	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	288	39,918	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	289	40,416	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	293	40,899	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	296	41,374	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	304	41,862	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	311	42,324	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	319	42,781	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	319	43,264	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	318	43,771	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	319	44,225	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	321	44,660	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	324	45,081	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	327	45,846	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	331	46,290	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	335	46,796	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	343	47,385	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	353	48,222	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	361	49,326	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	366	50,283	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	372	50,978	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	380	51,332	3,876

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project