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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Lesotho	Congo - Kinshasa	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	1,908	51,181	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	1,916	52,782	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	1,922	54,453	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	1,926	56,170	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	1,926	57,860	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	1,925	59,599	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	1,922	61,474	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	1,919	63,479	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	1,917	65,590	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	1,915	67,800	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	1,916	70,114	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	1,920	72,550	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	1,925	75,138	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	1,930	77,792	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	1,936	80,534	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	1,942	83,368	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	1,948	86,229	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	1,953	89,193	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	1,958	92,209	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	1,962	95,232	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	1,987	98,320	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	2,013	101,499	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	2,037	104,767	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	2,059	108,171	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

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 Lesotho, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.