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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Albania	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	3,085	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	3,065	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	3,047	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	3,038	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	3,026	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	3,014	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	2,998	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	2,979	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	2,957	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	2,934	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	2,915	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	2,900	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	2,892	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	2,888	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	2,882	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	2,876	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	2,868	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	2,863	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	2,861	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	2,854	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	2,842	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	2,825	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	2,799	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	2,787	4,713

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.

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.