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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	Malta	Estonia	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	387	1,378	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	390	1,400	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	393	1,391	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	396	1,382	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	398	1,374	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	401	1,365	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	404	1,357	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	405	1,349	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	406	1,341	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	409	1,337	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	412	1,334	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	414	1,332	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	416	1,328	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	420	1,324	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	426	1,319	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	435	1,314	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	445	1,312	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	455	1,314	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	468	1,314	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	485	1,318	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	504	1,323	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	516	1,327	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	518	1,329	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	530	1,330	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 Malta, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.