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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	7,666

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 Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.