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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	Colombia	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,365	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,911	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	285	39,411	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	288	39,918	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	289	40,416	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	293	40,899	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	296	41,374	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	304	41,862	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	311	42,324	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	319	42,781	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	319	43,264	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	318	43,771	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	319	44,225	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	321	44,660	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	324	45,081	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	327	45,846	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	331	46,290	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	335	46,796	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	343	47,385	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	353	48,222	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	361	49,326	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	366	50,283	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	372	50,978	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	380	51,332	7,666

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.

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 Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.