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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	Albania	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	3,085	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	3,065	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	3,047	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	3,038	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	3,026	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	3,014	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	2,998	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	2,979	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	2,957	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	2,934	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	2,915	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	2,900	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	2,892	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	2,888	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	2,882	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	2,876	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	2,868	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	2,863	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	2,861	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	2,854	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	2,842	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	2,825	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	2,799	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	2,787	110,593

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

Brazil

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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

Egypt

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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