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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Colombia	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	70	38,365	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	71	38,911	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	71	39,411	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	72	39,918	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	72	40,416	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	72	40,899	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	72	41,374	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	72	41,862	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	72	42,324	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	73	42,781	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	73	43,264	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	73	43,771	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	73	44,225	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	73	44,660	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	73	45,081	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	73	45,846	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	74	46,290	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	74	46,796	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	74	47,385	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	74	48,222	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	75	49,326	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	75	50,283	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	76	50,978	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	76	51,332	5,907

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 Dominica, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.