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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	Tanzania	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	273	32,912	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	274	33,953	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	275	34,974	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	276	36,021	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	278	37,100	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,167	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,262	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	281	40,387	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	282	41,557	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,741	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,889	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	286	45,132	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	287	46,531	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	288	47,965	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	289	49,437	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	290	50,965	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	291	52,604	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	291	54,336	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	292	56,062	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	293	57,765	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	294	59,465	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	294	61,191	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	295	62,944	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	295	64,835	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.

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