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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Colombia	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	38,365	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	38,911	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	39,411	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	39,918	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	40,416	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	40,899	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	41,374	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	41,862	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	42,324	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	42,781	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	43,264	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	43,771	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	44,225	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	44,660	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	45,081	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	45,846	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	46,290	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	46,796	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	47,385	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	48,222	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	49,326	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	50,283	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	50,978	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	51,332	108,171

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.