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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Burkina Faso	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	11,075	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	11,405	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	11,828	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	12,380	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	12,829	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	13,178	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	13,540	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	13,917	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	14,309	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	14,722	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	15,152	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	15,600	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	16,064	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	16,563	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	17,072	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	17,575	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	18,094	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	18,621	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	19,157	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	19,698	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	20,242	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	20,788	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	21,336	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	21,889	5,556

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

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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