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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	Saudi Arabia	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	277	19,964	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	281	20,426	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	285	20,956	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,549	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	289	22,189	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	293	22,850	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	296	23,516	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	304	24,178	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	311	24,841	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	319	25,518	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	319	26,227	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	318	27,068	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	319	27,810	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	321	28,516	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	324	29,220	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	327	29,936	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	331	30,646	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	335	31,360	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	343	32,184	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	353	32,869	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	361	33,661	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	366	34,542	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	372	33,651	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	380	34,081	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.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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