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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	Malta	Laos	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	387	5,286	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	390	5,397	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	393	5,499	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	396	5,578	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	398	5,654	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	401	5,746	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	404	5,836	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	405	5,931	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	406	6,035	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	409	6,145	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	412	6,257	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	414	6,368	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	416	6,477	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	420	6,586	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	426	6,695	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	435	6,804	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	445	6,912	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	455	7,019	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	468	7,127	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	485	7,234	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	504	7,343	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	516	7,452	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	518	7,560	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	530	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

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 Malta, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.