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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	Russia	Congo - Kinshasa	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	51,181	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	52,782	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	54,453	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	56,170	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	57,860	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	59,599	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	61,474	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	63,479	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	65,590	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	67,800	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	70,114	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	72,550	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	75,138	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	77,792	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	80,534	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	83,368	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	86,229	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	89,193	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	92,209	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	95,232	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	98,320	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	101,499	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	104,767	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	108,171	83,811

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.