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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	Malaysia	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	22,132	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	22,695	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	23,291	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	23,874	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	24,437	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	24,993	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	25,543	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	26,086	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	26,620	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	27,161	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	27,715	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	28,268	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	28,750	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	29,163	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	29,568	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	29,977	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	30,387	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	30,782	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	31,164	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	31,539	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	31,903	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	32,257	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	32,603	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	32,956	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

Malaysia

1900-1939: Nazrin Shah, S. (2017). Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts, Oxford University Press

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