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