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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Estonia	Russia	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	1,378	147,218	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	1,400	146,600	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	1,391	145,980	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	1,382	145,310	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	1,374	144,652	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	1,365	144,071	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	1,357	143,522	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	1,349	143,053	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	1,341	142,809	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	1,337	142,746	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	1,334	142,789	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	1,332	142,853	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	1,328	142,964	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	1,324	143,205	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	1,319	143,510	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	1,314	146,094	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	1,312	146,410	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	1,314	146,678	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	1,314	146,846	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	1,318	146,834	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	1,323	146,768	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	1,327	146,463	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	1,329	145,849	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	1,330	146,693	108,171

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