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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Burkina Faso	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	11,075	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	11,405	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	11,828	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	12,380	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	12,829	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	13,178	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	13,540	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	13,917	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	14,309	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	14,722	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	15,152	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	15,600	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	16,064	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	16,563	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	17,072	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	17,575	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	18,094	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	18,621	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	19,157	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	19,698	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	20,242	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	20,788	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	21,336	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	21,889	34,081

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

Saudi Arabia

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.