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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Burkina Faso	Lithuania
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	11,075	3,419
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	11,405	3,395
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	11,828	3,367
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	12,380	3,340
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	12,829	3,313
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	13,178	3,276
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	13,540	3,223
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	13,917	3,172
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	14,309	3,134
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	14,722	3,102
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	15,152	3,068
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	15,600	3,004
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	16,064	2,937
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	16,563	2,898
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	17,072	2,869
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	17,575	2,844
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	18,094	2,818
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	18,621	2,782
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	19,157	2,744
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	19,698	2,718
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	20,242	2,710
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	20,788	2,711
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	21,336	2,724
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	21,889	2,748

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, Lithuania; the database as a whole is cited above.