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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	Qatar	Russia	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	273	627	147,218	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	274	659	146,600	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	275	691	145,980	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	276	724	145,310	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	278	757	144,652	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	279	850	144,071	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	280	1,001	143,522	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	281	1,153	143,053	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	282	1,306	142,809	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	283	1,460	142,746	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	285	1,615	142,789	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	286	1,770	142,853	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	287	1,904	142,964	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	288	2,010	143,205	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	289	2,103	143,510	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	290	2,187	146,094	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	291	2,261	146,410	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	291	2,326	146,678	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	292	2,384	146,846	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	293	2,435	146,834	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	294	2,480	146,768	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	294	2,519	146,463	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	295	2,553	145,849	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	295	2,559	146,693	2,787

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, Qatar, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.