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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Nepal	Oman	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	23,087	2,348	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	23,487	2,403	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	23,887	2,457	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	24,273	2,510	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	24,645	2,562	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	24,989	2,613	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	25,255	2,663	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	25,484	2,713	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	25,732	2,764	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	25,998	2,816	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	26,298	2,871	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	26,664	2,928	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	27,081	2,986	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	27,505	3,047	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	27,917	3,110	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	28,311	3,174	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	28,678	3,240	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	29,034	3,307	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	29,384	3,375	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	29,718	3,444	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	30,057	3,512	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	30,595	3,582	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	31,311	3,651	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	31,845	3,696	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 Nepal, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.