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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	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	387	147,218	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	390	146,600	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	393	145,980	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	396	145,310	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	398	144,652	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	401	144,071	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	404	143,522	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	405	143,053	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	406	142,809	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	409	142,746	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	412	142,789	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	414	142,853	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	416	142,964	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	420	143,205	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	426	143,510	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	435	146,094	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	445	146,410	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	455	146,678	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	468	146,846	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	485	146,834	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	504	146,768	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	516	146,463	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	518	145,849	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	530	146,693	31,058

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