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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	United Kingdom	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	58,946	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	59,149	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	59,377	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	59,631	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	59,903	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	60,217	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	60,682	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	61,098	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	61,593	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	62,100	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	62,539	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	63,040	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	63,567	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	63,989	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	64,392	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	64,885	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	65,400	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	65,941	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	66,335	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	66,732	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	67,095	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	67,380	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	67,651	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	68,093	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

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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