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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	Moldova	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	4,244	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	4,199	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	4,154	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	4,108	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	4,059	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	4,013	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	3,966	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	3,919	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	3,873	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	3,829	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	3,788	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	3,748	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	3,709	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	3,671	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	3,633	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	3,595	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	3,558	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	3,522	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	3,485	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	3,448	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	3,412	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	3,376	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	3,339	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	3,570	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.

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, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.