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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	Barbados	Bolivia	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,007	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,177	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,351	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,529	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,711	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,895	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	280	9,081	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	281	9,268	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	282	9,457	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	283	9,647	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	285	9,836	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,024	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,211	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,397	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,581	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,763	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,942	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,118	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,289	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,456	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,621	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,775	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,917	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	295	12,060	146,693

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

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.