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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Sudan	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	433	26,168	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	438	26,771	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	443	27,387	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	448	28,017	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	454	28,662	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	460	29,321	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	467	29,996	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	474	30,686	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	482	31,393	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	491	32,137	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	500	33,078	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	509	33,891	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	521	34,568	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	533	35,293	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	547	36,093	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	560	37,058	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	571	38,165	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	586	39,294	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	599	40,512	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	610	41,764	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	623	42,952	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	633	44,121	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	643	45,290	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	651	46,498	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, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.