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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bolivia	Congo - Kinshasa	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	8,007	51,181	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	8,177	52,782	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	8,351	54,453	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	8,529	56,170	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	8,711	57,860	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	8,895	59,599	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	9,081	61,474	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	9,268	63,479	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	9,457	65,590	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	9,647	67,800	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	9,836	70,114	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	10,024	72,550	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	10,211	75,138	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	10,397	77,792	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	10,581	80,534	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	10,763	83,368	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	10,942	86,229	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	11,118	89,193	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	11,289	92,209	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	11,456	95,232	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	11,621	98,320	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	11,775	101,499	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	11,917	104,767	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	12,060	108,171	2,787

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

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.