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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	Paraguay	São Tomé & Príncipe	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	5,366	138	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	5,473	141	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	5,579	144	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	5,683	147	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	5,786	151	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	5,886	154	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	5,984	158	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	6,080	161	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	6,173	165	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	6,264	168	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	6,352	172	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	6,438	176	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	6,522	180	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	6,605	183	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	6,688	187	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	6,769	190	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	6,850	194	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	6,930	198	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	7,012	201	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	7,095	204	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	7,179	208	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	7,263	212	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	7,348	216	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	7,432	220	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 Paraguay, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.