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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Brazzaville	Albania	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	2,886	3,085	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	2,999	3,065	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	3,113	3,047	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	3,181	3,038	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	3,274	3,026	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	3,400	3,014	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	3,543	2,998	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	3,702	2,979	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	3,859	2,957	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	3,989	2,934	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	4,146	2,915	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	4,324	2,900	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	4,468	2,892	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	4,581	2,888	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	4,667	2,882	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	4,757	2,876	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	4,851	2,868	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	4,951	2,863	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	5,055	2,861	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	5,164	2,854	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	5,279	2,842	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	5,400	2,825	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	5,527	2,799	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	5,655	2,787	19,266

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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