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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Romania	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	22,414	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	22,262	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	22,106	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	21,931	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	21,828	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	21,704	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	21,571	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	21,443	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	21,129	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	20,779	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	20,607	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	20,485	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	20,385	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	20,296	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	20,224	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	20,151	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	20,055	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	19,938	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	19,823	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	19,713	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	19,622	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	19,496	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	19,351	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	19,266	18,494

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

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 Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.