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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Colombia	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	38,365	273
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	38,911	274
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	39,411	275
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	39,918	276
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	40,416	278
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	40,899	279
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	41,374	280
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	41,862	281
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	42,324	282
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	42,781	283
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	43,264	285
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	43,771	286
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	44,225	287
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	44,660	288
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	45,081	289
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	45,846	290
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	46,290	291
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	46,796	291
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	47,385	292
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	48,222	293
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	49,326	294
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	50,283	294
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	50,978	295
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	51,332	295

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