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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	Germany	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	277	81,439	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	281	81,474	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	285	81,534	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	288	81,595	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	289	81,566	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	293	81,473	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	296	81,354	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	304	81,190	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	311	81,009	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	319	80,781	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	319	80,500	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	318	80,301	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	319	80,292	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	321	80,443	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	324	80,663	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	327	81,000	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	331	81,704	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	335	82,366	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,674	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	353	82,923	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	361	83,110	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	366	83,178	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	372	83,213	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	380	83,811	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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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