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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Lithuania	Congo - Kinshasa	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	3,419	51,181	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	3,395	52,782	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	3,367	54,453	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	3,340	56,170	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	3,313	57,860	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	3,276	59,599	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	3,223	61,474	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	3,172	63,479	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	3,134	65,590	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	3,102	67,800	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	3,068	70,114	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	3,004	72,550	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	2,937	75,138	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	2,898	77,792	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	2,869	80,534	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	2,844	83,368	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	2,818	86,229	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	2,782	89,193	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	2,744	92,209	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	2,718	95,232	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	2,710	98,320	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	2,711	101,499	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	2,724	104,767	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	2,748	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 Lithuania, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.