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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date United Arab EmiratesCongo - KinshasaRussia
3,10151,181147,218
3,28452,782146,600
3,45854,453145,980
3,61356,170145,310
3,75457,860144,652
3,88259,599144,071
4,00061,474143,522
4,53263,479143,053
5,62365,590142,809
7,27767,800142,746
8,16470,114142,789
8,15272,550142,853
8,43875,138142,964
8,74777,792143,205
9,07780,534143,510
9,32183,368146,094
9,46186,229146,410
9,58789,193146,678
9,69992,209146,846
9,79695,232146,834
9,87998,320146,768
9,953101,499146,463
10,018104,767145,849
10,099108,171146,693

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

Russia

  • 1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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