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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 Bosnia & HerzegovinaCongo - KinshasaRussia
3,81151,181147,218
3,90152,782146,600
3,91954,453145,980
3,92356,170145,310
3,94057,860144,652
3,97559,599144,071
3,99161,474143,522
3,99363,479143,053
3,99065,590142,809
3,98767,800142,746
3,98570,114142,789
3,98372,550142,853
3,98075,138142,964
3,97777,792143,205
3,97380,534143,510
3,96883,368146,094
3,96386,229146,410
3,95789,193146,678
3,95192,209146,846
3,94495,232146,834
3,93798,320146,768
3,929101,499146,463
3,921104,767145,849
3,876108,171146,693

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.