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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Colombia	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	38,365	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	38,911	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	39,411	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	39,918	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	40,416	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	40,899	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	41,374	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	41,862	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	42,324	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	42,781	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	43,264	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	43,771	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	44,225	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	44,660	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	45,081	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	45,846	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	46,290	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	46,796	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	47,385	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	48,222	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	49,326	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	50,283	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	50,978	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	51,332	21,889

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.