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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	Russia	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	387	147,218	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	390	146,600	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	393	145,980	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	396	145,310	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	398	144,652	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	401	144,071	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	404	143,522	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	405	143,053	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	406	142,809	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	409	142,746	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	412	142,789	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	414	142,853	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	416	142,964	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	420	143,205	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	426	143,510	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	435	146,094	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	445	146,410	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	455	146,678	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	468	146,846	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	485	146,834	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	504	146,768	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	516	146,463	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	518	145,849	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	530	146,693	7,666

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