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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Afghanistan	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	22,206	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	22,461	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	22,507	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	23,600	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	25,005	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	25,698	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	26,335	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	27,154	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	27,387	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	27,706	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	28,484	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	29,121	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	29,758	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	30,420	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	31,108	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	31,823	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	32,564	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	33,332	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	34,125	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	34,941	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	35,972	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	37,034	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	38,127	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	39,252	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.

All data sources

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 Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.