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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	51,181	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	52,782	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	54,453	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	56,170	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	57,860	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	59,599	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	61,474	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	63,479	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	65,590	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	67,800	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	70,114	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	72,550	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	75,138	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	77,792	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	80,534	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	83,368	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	86,229	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	89,193	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	92,209	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	95,232	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	98,320	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	101,499	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	104,767	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	108,171	8,834

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

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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