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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Colombia	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,365	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,911	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	285	39,411	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	288	39,918	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	289	40,416	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	293	40,899	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	296	41,374	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	304	41,862	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	311	42,324	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	319	42,781	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	319	43,264	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	318	43,771	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	319	44,225	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	321	44,660	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	324	45,081	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	327	45,846	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	331	46,290	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	335	46,796	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	343	47,385	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	353	48,222	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	361	49,326	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	366	50,283	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	372	50,978	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	380	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.

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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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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 Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.