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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Congo - KinshasaRussiaOman
51,181147,2182,348
52,782146,6002,403
54,453145,9802,457
56,170145,3102,510
57,860144,6522,562
59,599144,0712,613
61,474143,5222,663
63,479143,0532,713
65,590142,8092,764
67,800142,7462,816
70,114142,7892,871
72,550142,8532,928
75,138142,9642,986
77,792143,2053,047
80,534143,5103,110
83,368146,0943,174
86,229146,4103,240
89,193146,6783,307
92,209146,8463,375
95,232146,8343,444
98,320146,7683,512
101,499146,4633,582
104,767145,8493,651
108,171146,6933,696

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.