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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Russia	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	433	147,218	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	438	146,600	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	443	145,980	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	448	145,310	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	454	144,652	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	460	144,071	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	467	143,522	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	474	143,053	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	482	142,809	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	491	142,746	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	500	142,789	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	509	142,853	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	521	142,964	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	533	143,205	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	547	143,510	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	560	146,094	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	571	146,410	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	586	146,678	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	599	146,846	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	610	146,834	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	623	146,768	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	633	146,463	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	643	145,849	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	651	146,693	7,432

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, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.