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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Cameroon	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	277	15,483	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	281	15,913	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	285	16,354	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	288	16,815	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	289	17,289	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	293	17,764	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	296	18,249	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	304	18,746	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	311	19,278	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	319	19,843	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	319	20,419	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	318	21,002	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	319	21,586	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	321	22,181	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	324	22,800	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	327	23,513	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	331	24,273	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	335	24,995	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	343	25,680	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	353	26,373	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	361	27,114	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	366	27,878	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	372	28,663	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	380	29,417	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 Cameroon; the database as a whole is cited above.