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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Russia	Nepal
Dec 31, 1999	277	147,218	23,087
Dec 31, 2000	281	146,600	23,487
Dec 31, 2001	285	145,980	23,887
Dec 31, 2002	288	145,310	24,273
Dec 31, 2003	289	144,652	24,645
Dec 31, 2004	293	144,071	24,989
Dec 31, 2005	296	143,522	25,255
Dec 31, 2006	304	143,053	25,484
Dec 31, 2007	311	142,809	25,732
Dec 31, 2008	319	142,746	25,998
Dec 31, 2009	319	142,789	26,298
Dec 31, 2010	318	142,853	26,664
Dec 31, 2011	319	142,964	27,081
Dec 31, 2012	321	143,205	27,505
Dec 31, 2013	324	143,510	27,917
Dec 31, 2014	327	146,094	28,311
Dec 31, 2015	331	146,410	28,678
Dec 31, 2016	335	146,678	29,034
Dec 31, 2017	343	146,846	29,384
Dec 31, 2018	353	146,834	29,718
Dec 31, 2019	361	146,768	30,057
Dec 31, 2020	366	146,463	30,595
Dec 31, 2021	372	145,849	31,311
Dec 31, 2022	380	146,693	31,845

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 Nepal; the database as a whole is cited above.