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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	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	3,696

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