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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cuba	Mali	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	11,108	10,596	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	11,147	10,833	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	11,179	10,890	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	11,210	11,007	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	11,241	11,307	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	11,260	11,579	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	11,268	11,804	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	11,266	12,043	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	11,261	12,337	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	11,258	12,657	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	11,260	12,986	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	11,262	13,325	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	11,264	13,679	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	11,262	14,040	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	11,250	14,412	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	11,238	14,803	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	11,214	15,210	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	11,180	15,629	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	11,147	16,060	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	11,116	16,507	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	11,105	16,967	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	11,089	17,442	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	11,046	17,930	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	11,003	18,494	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

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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