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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Laos	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	5,286	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	5,397	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	5,499	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	5,578	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	5,654	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	5,746	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	5,836	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	5,931	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	6,035	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	6,145	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	6,257	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	6,368	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	6,477	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	6,586	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	6,695	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	6,804	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	6,912	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	7,019	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	7,127	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	7,234	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	7,343	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	7,452	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	7,560	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	7,666	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

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