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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	Saudi Arabia	Albania	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,964	3,085	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	274	20,426	3,065	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,956	3,047	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,549	3,038	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,189	3,026	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,850	3,014	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,516	2,998	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	281	24,178	2,979	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	282	24,841	2,957	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,518	2,934	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,227	2,915	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,068	2,900	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,810	2,892	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,516	2,888	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,220	2,882	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,936	2,876	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,646	2,868	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	291	31,360	2,863	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	292	32,184	2,861	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	293	32,869	2,854	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	294	33,661	2,842	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	294	34,542	2,825	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,651	2,799	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,081	2,787	146,693

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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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