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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	Nepal	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	273	23,087	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	274	23,487	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,887	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,273	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,645	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	279	24,989	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,255	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	281	25,484	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	282	25,732	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,998	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,298	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	286	26,664	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,081	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	288	27,505	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	289	27,917	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	290	28,311	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	291	28,678	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,034	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	292	29,384	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	293	29,718	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	294	30,057	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	294	30,595	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	295	31,311	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	295	31,845	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

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