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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Burkina Faso	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	11,075	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	11,405	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	11,828	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	12,380	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	12,829	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	13,178	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	13,540	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	13,917	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	14,309	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	14,722	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	15,152	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	15,600	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	16,064	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	16,563	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	17,072	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	17,575	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	18,094	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	18,621	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	19,157	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	19,698	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	20,242	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	20,788	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	21,336	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	21,889	6,291

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