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