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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Burkina Faso	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	11,075	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	11,405	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	11,828	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	12,380	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	12,829	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	13,178	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	13,540	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	13,917	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	14,309	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	14,722	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	15,152	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	15,600	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	16,064	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	16,563	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	17,072	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	17,575	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	18,094	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	18,621	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	19,157	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	19,698	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	20,242	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	20,788	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	21,336	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	21,889	146,693

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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