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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Romania	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	22,414	152
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	22,262	153
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	22,106	154
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	21,931	155
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	21,828	156
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	21,704	157
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	21,571	157
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	21,443	158
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	21,129	159
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	20,779	160
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	20,607	160
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	20,485	161
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	20,385	162
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	20,296	162
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	20,224	163
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	20,151	163
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	20,055	164
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	19,938	164
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	19,823	165
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	19,713	166
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	19,622	166
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	19,496	167
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	19,351	167
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	19,266	167

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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