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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	St. Lucia	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	152	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	153	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	154	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	155	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	156	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	157	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	157	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	158	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	159	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	160	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	160	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	161	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	162	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	162	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	163	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	163	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	164	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	164	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	165	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	166	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	166	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	167	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	167	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	167	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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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 St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.