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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Colombia	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	70	38,365	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	71	38,911	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	71	39,411	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	72	39,918	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	72	40,416	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	72	40,899	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	72	41,374	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	72	41,862	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	72	42,324	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	73	42,781	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	73	43,264	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	73	43,771	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	73	44,225	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	73	44,660	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	73	45,081	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	73	45,846	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	74	46,290	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	74	46,796	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	74	47,385	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	74	48,222	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	75	49,326	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	75	50,283	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	76	50,978	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	76	51,332	121,234

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

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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