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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	1,330

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

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