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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Romania	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	22,414	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	22,262	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	22,106	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,931	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	21,828	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	21,704	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	21,571	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	21,443	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	21,129	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	20,779	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	20,607	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	20,485	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	20,385	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	20,296	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	20,224	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	20,151	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	20,055	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	19,938	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,823	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,713	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	19,622	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	19,496	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	19,351	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	19,266	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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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