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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Colombia	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	38,365	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	38,911	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	39,411	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	39,918	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	40,416	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	40,899	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	41,374	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	41,862	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	42,324	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	42,781	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	43,264	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	43,771	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	44,225	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	44,660	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	45,081	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	45,846	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	46,290	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	46,796	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	47,385	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	48,222	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	49,326	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	50,283	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	50,978	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	51,332	3,696

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, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.