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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	Madagascar
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	15,259
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	15,707
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	16,162
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	16,631
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	17,114
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	17,610
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	18,120
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	18,641
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	19,173
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	19,717
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	20,272
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	20,837
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	21,413
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	21,999
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	22,593
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	23,196
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	23,806
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	24,423
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	25,044
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	25,671
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	26,302
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	26,936
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	27,573
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	28,237

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