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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Paraguay	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	277	5,366	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	281	5,473	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	285	5,579	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	288	5,683	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,786	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,886	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,984	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	304	6,080	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,173	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	319	6,264	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	319	6,352	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	318	6,438	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	319	6,522	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	321	6,605	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	324	6,688	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	327	6,769	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	331	6,850	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	335	6,930	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	343	7,012	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	353	7,095	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	361	7,179	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	366	7,263	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	372	7,348	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	380	7,432	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 Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.