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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Albania	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	3,085	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	3,065	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	3,047	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	3,038	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	3,026	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	3,014	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	2,998	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	2,979	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	2,957	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	2,934	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	2,915	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	2,900	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	2,892	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	2,888	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	2,882	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	2,876	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	2,868	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	2,863	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	2,861	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	2,854	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	2,842	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	2,825	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	2,799	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	2,787	56,210

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

Myanmar (Burma)

1901-1938: "Trends of Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Burma 1870-1940", Journal of the Burma Research Society, 1964, p. 144
1938-1950: E.E. Hagen, On the Theory of Social Change, Dorsey, Homewood, Illinois, 1962, Table 18-1,

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