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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	United States	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	279,040	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	282,162	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	284,969	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	287,625	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	290,108	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	292,805	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	295,517	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	298,380	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	301,231	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	304,094	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	306,772	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	309,327	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	311,583	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	313,878	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	316,060	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	318,386	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	320,739	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	323,072	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	325,122	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	326,838	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	328,330	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	331,512	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	332,032	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	333,288	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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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