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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	Congo - Kinshasa	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	51,181	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	52,782	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	54,453	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	56,170	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	57,860	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	59,599	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	61,474	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	63,479	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	65,590	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	67,800	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	70,114	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	72,550	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	75,138	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	77,792	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	80,534	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	83,368	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	86,229	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	89,193	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	92,209	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	95,232	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	98,320	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	101,499	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	104,767	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	108,171	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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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