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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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