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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Burkina Faso	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	11,075	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	11,405	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	11,828	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	12,380	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	12,829	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	13,178	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	13,540	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	13,917	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	14,309	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	14,722	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	15,152	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	15,600	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	16,064	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	16,563	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	17,072	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	17,575	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	18,094	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	18,621	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	19,157	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	19,698	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	20,242	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	20,788	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	21,336	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	21,889	19,715

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.

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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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.