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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Montenegro	Laos	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	623	5,286	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	623	5,397	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	623	5,499	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	622	5,578	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	621	5,654	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	621	5,746	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	621	5,836	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	620	5,931	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	620	6,035	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	621	6,145	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	622	6,257	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	623	6,368	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	622	6,477	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	622	6,586	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	622	6,695	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	621	6,804	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	620	6,912	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	618	7,019	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	616	7,127	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	614	7,234	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	613	7,343	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	612	7,452	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	611	7,560	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	610	7,666	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

Montenegro

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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