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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.