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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Russia	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	277	147,218	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	281	146,600	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	285	145,980	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	288	145,310	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	289	144,652	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	293	144,071	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	296	143,522	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	304	143,053	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	311	142,809	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	319	142,746	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	319	142,789	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	318	142,853	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	319	142,964	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	321	143,205	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	324	143,510	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	327	146,094	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	331	146,410	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	335	146,678	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	343	146,846	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	353	146,834	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	361	146,768	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	366	146,463	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	372	145,849	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	380	146,693	7,666

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 Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.