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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Congo - Kinshasa	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	51,181	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	52,782	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	54,453	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	56,170	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	57,860	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	59,599	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	61,474	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	63,479	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	65,590	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	67,800	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	70,114	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	72,550	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	75,138	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	77,792	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	80,534	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	83,368	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	86,229	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	89,193	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	92,209	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	95,232	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	98,320	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	101,499	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	104,767	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	108,171	51,332

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.