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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Albania	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	3,085	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	3,065	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	3,047	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	3,038	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	3,026	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	3,014	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	2,998	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	2,979	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	2,957	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	2,934	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	2,915	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	2,900	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	2,892	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	2,888	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	2,882	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	2,876	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	2,868	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	2,863	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	2,861	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	2,854	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	2,842	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	2,825	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	2,799	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	2,787	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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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 Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.