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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	Mali	Barbados	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	273	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	274	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	275	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	276	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	278	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	279	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	280	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	281	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	282	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	283	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	285	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	286	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	287	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	288	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	289	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	290	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	291	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	291	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	292	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	293	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	294	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	294	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	295	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	295	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 Mali, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.