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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	Moldova	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	387	4,244	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	390	4,199	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	393	4,154	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	396	4,108	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	398	4,059	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	401	4,013	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	404	3,966	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	405	3,919	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	406	3,873	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	409	3,829	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	412	3,788	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	414	3,748	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	416	3,709	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	420	3,671	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	426	3,633	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	435	3,595	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	445	3,558	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	455	3,522	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	468	3,485	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	485	3,448	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	504	3,412	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	516	3,376	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	518	3,339	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	530	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 Malta, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.