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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.