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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Burkina Faso	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	11,075	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	11,405	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	11,828	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	12,380	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	12,829	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	13,178	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	13,540	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	13,917	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	14,309	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	14,722	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	15,152	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	15,600	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	16,064	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	16,563	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	17,072	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	17,575	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	18,094	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	18,621	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	19,157	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	19,698	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	20,242	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	20,788	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	21,336	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	21,889	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

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