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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 & HerzegovinaRussiaCongo - Kinshasa
3,811147,21851,181
3,901146,60052,782
3,919145,98054,453
3,923145,31056,170
3,940144,65257,860
3,975144,07159,599
3,991143,52261,474
3,993143,05363,479
3,990142,80965,590
3,987142,74667,800
3,985142,78970,114
3,983142,85372,550
3,980142,96475,138
3,977143,20577,792
3,973143,51080,534
3,968146,09483,368
3,963146,41086,229
3,957146,67889,193
3,951146,84692,209
3,944146,83495,232
3,937146,76898,320
3,929146,463101,499
3,921145,849104,767
3,876146,693108,171

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.