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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	Bangladesh	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	132,907	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	135,207	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	137,420	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	139,573	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	141,650	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	143,644	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	145,546	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	147,376	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	149,047	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	150,562	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	152,189	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	153,927	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	155,634	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	157,326	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	158,999	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	160,650	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	162,273	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	163,938	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	165,655	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	167,358	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	169,045	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	170,709	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	172,354	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	174,217	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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.