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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Burkina Faso	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	11,075	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	11,405	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	11,828	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	12,380	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	12,829	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	13,178	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	13,540	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	13,917	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	14,309	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	14,722	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	15,152	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	15,600	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	16,064	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	16,563	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	17,072	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	17,575	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	18,094	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	18,621	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	19,157	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	19,698	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	20,242	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	20,788	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	21,336	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	21,889	10,849

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

Jordan

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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