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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Russia	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	277	147,218	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	281	146,600	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	285	145,980	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	288	145,310	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	289	144,652	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	293	144,071	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	296	143,522	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	304	143,053	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	311	142,809	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	319	142,746	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	319	142,789	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	318	142,853	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	319	142,964	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	321	143,205	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	324	143,510	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	327	146,094	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	331	146,410	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	335	146,678	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	343	146,846	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	353	146,834	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	361	146,768	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	366	146,463	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	372	145,849	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	380	146,693	1,883

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 Latvia; the database as a whole is cited above.