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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	Gabon
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	1,143
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	1,179
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	1,207
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	1,234
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	1,262
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	1,297
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	1,340
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	1,384
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	1,434
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	1,487
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	1,542
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	1,600
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	1,656
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	1,714
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	1,778
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	1,843
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	1,905
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	1,966
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	2,025
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	2,083
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	2,139
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	2,193
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	2,246
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	2,292

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