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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Nepal	Burkina Faso	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	23,087	11,075	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	23,487	11,405	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	23,887	11,828	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	24,273	12,380	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	24,645	12,829	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	24,989	13,178	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	25,255	13,540	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	25,484	13,917	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	25,732	14,309	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	25,998	14,722	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	26,298	15,152	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	26,664	15,600	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	27,081	16,064	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	27,505	16,563	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	27,917	17,072	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	28,311	17,575	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	28,678	18,094	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	29,034	18,621	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	29,384	19,157	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	29,718	19,698	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	30,057	20,242	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	30,595	20,788	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	31,311	21,336	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	31,845	21,889	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 Nepal, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.