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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Lesotho	Congo - Kinshasa	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	1,908	51,181	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	1,916	52,782	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	1,922	54,453	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	1,926	56,170	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	1,926	57,860	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	1,925	59,599	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	1,922	61,474	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	1,919	63,479	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	1,917	65,590	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	1,915	67,800	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	1,916	70,114	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	1,920	72,550	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	1,925	75,138	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	1,930	77,792	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	1,936	80,534	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	1,942	83,368	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	1,948	86,229	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	1,953	89,193	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	1,958	92,209	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	1,962	95,232	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	1,987	98,320	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	2,013	101,499	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	2,037	104,767	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	2,059	108,171	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

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