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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Oman	Guinea
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	2,348	7,610
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	2,403	7,780
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	2,457	7,821
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	2,510	7,906
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	2,562	8,121
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	2,613	8,317
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	2,663	8,478
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	2,713	8,650
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	2,764	8,860
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	2,816	9,091
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	2,871	9,327
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	2,928	9,571
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	2,986	9,825
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	3,047	10,084
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	3,110	10,351
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	3,174	10,632
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	3,240	10,924
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	3,307	11,225
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	3,375	11,534
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	3,444	11,855
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	3,512	12,160
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	3,582	12,469
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	3,651	12,778
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	3,696	13,087

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

No separate list is published for Oman, Guinea; the database as a whole is cited above.