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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 BarbadosIcelandRussiaLithuania
273277147,2183,419
274281146,6003,395
275285145,9803,367
276288145,3103,340
278289144,6523,313
279293144,0713,276
280296143,5223,223
281304143,0533,172
282311142,8093,134
283319142,7463,102
285319142,7893,068
286318142,8533,004
287319142,9642,937
288321143,2052,898
289324143,5102,869
290327146,0942,844
291331146,4102,818
291335146,6782,782
292343146,8462,744
293353146,8342,718
294361146,7682,710
294366146,4632,711
295372145,8492,724
295380146,6932,748

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

Iceland

  • 1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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, Lithuania; the database as a whole is cited above.