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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosDominicaCongo - KinshasaRussia
2737051,181147,218
2747152,782146,600
2757154,453145,980
2767256,170145,310
2787257,860144,652
2797259,599144,071
2807261,474143,522
2817263,479143,053
2827265,590142,809
2837367,800142,746
2857370,114142,789
2867372,550142,853
2877375,138142,964
2887377,792143,205
2897380,534143,510
2907383,368146,094
2917486,229146,410
2917489,193146,678
2927492,209146,846
2937495,232146,834
2947598,320146,768
29475101,499146,463
29576104,767145,849
29576108,171146,693

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.

All data sources

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