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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 - KinshasaTurkmenistanRussia
51,1814,324147,218
52,7824,385146,600
54,4534,444145,980
56,1704,502145,310
57,8604,556144,652
59,5994,608144,071
61,4744,664143,522
63,4794,719143,053
65,5904,773142,809
67,8004,828142,746
70,1144,884142,789
72,5504,940142,853
75,1384,996142,964
77,7925,053143,205
80,5345,110143,510
83,3685,169146,094
86,2295,227146,410
89,1935,287146,678
92,2095,346146,846
95,2325,405146,834
98,3205,464146,768
101,4995,522146,463
104,7675,579145,849
108,1715,657146,693

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