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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Bangladesh	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	132,907	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	135,207	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	137,420	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	139,573	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	141,650	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	143,644	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	145,546	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	147,376	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	149,047	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	150,562	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	152,189	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	153,927	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	155,634	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	157,326	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	158,999	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	160,650	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	162,273	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	163,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	165,655	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	167,358	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	169,045	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	170,709	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	172,354	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	174,217	108,171

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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.