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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Denmark	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	277	5,322	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	281	5,339	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	285	5,358	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	288	5,377	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,391	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,404	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,420	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,438	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	311	5,461	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	319	5,494	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	319	5,524	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	318	5,548	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	319	5,571	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	321	5,592	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	324	5,614	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	327	5,644	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	331	5,683	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	335	5,730	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	343	5,766	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	353	5,795	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	361	5,818	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	366	5,831	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	372	5,855	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	380	5,907	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.

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 Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.