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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ghana	Oman	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	19,327	2,348	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	19,792	2,403	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	20,280	2,457	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	20,806	2,510	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	21,350	2,562	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	21,900	2,613	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	22,469	2,663	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	23,058	2,713	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	23,661	2,764	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	24,270	2,816	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	24,899	2,871	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	25,559	2,928	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	26,244	2,986	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	26,945	3,047	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	27,664	3,110	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	28,405	3,174	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	29,146	3,240	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	29,879	3,307	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	30,617	3,375	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	31,362	3,444	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	32,111	3,512	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	32,864	3,582	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	33,622	3,651	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	34,280	3,696	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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.