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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	7,432

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 Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.