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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Afghanistan	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,206	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,461	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	285	22,507	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	288	23,600	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	289	25,005	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	293	25,698	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	296	26,335	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	304	27,154	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	311	27,387	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	319	27,706	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	319	28,484	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	318	29,121	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	319	29,758	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	321	30,420	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	324	31,108	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	327	31,823	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	331	32,564	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	335	33,332	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	343	34,125	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	353	34,941	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	361	35,972	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	366	37,034	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,127	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	380	39,252	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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 Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.