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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	Colombia	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	38,365	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	38,911	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	39,411	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	39,918	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	40,416	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	40,899	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	41,374	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	41,862	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	42,324	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	42,781	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	43,264	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	43,771	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	44,225	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	44,660	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	45,081	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	45,846	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	46,290	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	46,796	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	47,385	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	48,222	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	49,326	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	50,283	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	50,978	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	51,332	21,889

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

No separate list is published for Dominican Republic, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.