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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mali	Burkina Faso	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	11,075	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	11,405	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	11,828	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	12,380	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	12,829	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	13,178	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	13,540	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	13,917	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	14,309	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	14,722	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	15,152	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	15,600	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	16,064	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	16,563	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	17,072	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	17,575	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	18,094	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	18,621	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	19,157	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	19,698	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	20,242	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	20,788	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	21,336	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	21,889	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 Mali, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.