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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	Romania	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	22,414	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	22,262	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	22,106	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	21,931	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	21,828	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	21,704	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	21,571	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	21,443	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	21,129	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	20,779	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	20,607	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	20,485	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	20,385	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	20,296	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	20,224	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	20,151	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	20,055	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	19,938	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	19,823	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	19,713	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	19,622	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	19,496	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	19,351	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	19,266	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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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.