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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Colombia	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	38,365	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	38,911	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	39,411	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	39,918	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	40,416	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	40,899	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	41,374	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	41,862	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	42,324	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	42,781	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	43,264	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	43,771	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	44,225	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	44,660	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	45,081	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	45,846	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	46,290	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	46,796	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	47,385	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	48,222	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	49,326	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	50,283	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	50,978	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	51,332	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.

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.