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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	New Zealand	Congo - Kinshasa	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	3,890	51,181	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	3,912	52,782	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	3,947	54,453	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	4,018	56,170	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	4,094	57,860	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	4,151	59,599	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	4,198	61,474	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	4,248	63,479	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	4,287	65,590	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	4,323	67,800	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	4,370	70,114	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	4,416	72,550	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	4,446	75,138	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	4,471	77,792	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	4,516	80,534	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	4,597	83,368	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	4,695	86,229	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	4,800	89,193	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	4,897	92,209	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	4,982	95,232	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	5,074	98,320	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	5,159	101,499	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	5,188	104,767	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	5,245	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

New Zealand

1870-1939: K. Rankin, "New Zealand's Gross National Product: 1859-1939, Review of Income and Wealth, March 1992, pp. 60-1., 1870 amended to include indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita)
1939-50: C. Clark, The Conditions of Economic Progress, third edition, Macmillan, London, 1957, pp. 171-2

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