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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Congo - Kinshasa	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	51,181	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	52,782	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	54,453	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	56,170	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	57,860	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	59,599	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	61,474	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	63,479	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	65,590	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	67,800	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	70,114	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	72,550	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	75,138	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	77,792	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	80,534	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	83,368	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	86,229	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	89,193	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	92,209	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	95,232	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	98,320	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	101,499	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	104,767	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	108,171	3,876

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.