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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Moldova	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	433	4,244	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	438	4,199	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	443	4,154	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	448	4,108	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	454	4,059	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	460	4,013	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	467	3,966	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	474	3,919	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	482	3,873	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	491	3,829	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	500	3,788	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	509	3,748	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	521	3,709	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	533	3,671	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	547	3,633	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	560	3,595	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	571	3,558	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	586	3,522	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	599	3,485	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	610	3,448	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	623	3,412	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	633	3,376	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	643	3,339	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	651	3,570	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 Luxembourg, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.