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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 BarbadosRussiaCongo - KinshasaLuxembourg
273147,21851,181433
274146,60052,782438
275145,98054,453443
276145,31056,170448
278144,65257,860454
279144,07159,599460
280143,52261,474467
281143,05363,479474
282142,80965,590482
283142,74667,800491
285142,78970,114500
286142,85372,550509
287142,96475,138521
288143,20577,792533
289143,51080,534547
290146,09483,368560
291146,41086,229571
291146,67889,193586
292146,84692,209599
293146,83495,232610
294146,76898,320623
294146,463101,499633
295145,849104,767643
295146,693108,171651

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