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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Albania	United Arab Emirates
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	3,085	3,101
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	3,065	3,284
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	3,047	3,458
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	3,038	3,613
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	3,026	3,754
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	3,014	3,882
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	2,998	4,000
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	2,979	4,532
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	2,957	5,623
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	2,934	7,277
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	2,915	8,164
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	2,900	8,152
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	2,892	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	2,888	8,747
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	2,882	9,077
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	2,876	9,321
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	2,868	9,461
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	2,863	9,587
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	2,861	9,699
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	2,854	9,796
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	2,842	9,879
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	2,825	9,953
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	2,799	10,018
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	2,787	10,099

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 Albania, United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.