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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	Colombia	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	38,365	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	38,911	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	39,411	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	39,918	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	40,416	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	40,899	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	41,374	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	41,862	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	42,324	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	42,781	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	43,264	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	43,771	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	44,225	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	44,660	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	45,081	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	45,846	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	46,290	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	46,796	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	47,385	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	48,222	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	49,326	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	50,283	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	50,978	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	51,332	108,171

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