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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Trinidad & Tobago	Burkina Faso	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	1,301	11,075	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	1,303	11,405	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	1,308	11,828	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	1,314	12,380	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	1,320	12,829	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	1,326	13,178	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	1,332	13,540	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	1,338	13,917	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	1,344	14,309	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	1,352	14,722	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	1,359	15,152	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	1,365	15,600	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	1,372	16,064	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	1,379	16,563	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	1,386	17,072	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	1,392	17,575	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	1,399	18,094	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	1,405	18,621	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	1,411	19,157	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	1,436	19,698	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	1,452	20,242	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	1,448	20,788	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	1,450	21,336	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	1,456	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 Trinidad & Tobago, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.