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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	Ukraine
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	49,491
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	49,014
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	48,520
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	48,074
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	47,692
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	47,342
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	47,003
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	46,685
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	46,407
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	46,156
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	45,951
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	45,768
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	45,604
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	45,492
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	45,389
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	44,944
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	44,429
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	44,208
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	44,029
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	43,944
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	43,951
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	43,904
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	43,746
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	39,897

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