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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Albania	North Macedonia
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	3,085	2,006
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	3,065	2,017
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	3,047	2,026
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	3,038	2,011
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	3,026	2,018
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	3,014	2,024
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	2,998	2,028
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	2,979	2,031
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	2,957	2,035
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	2,934	2,038
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	2,915	2,042
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	2,900	2,046
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	2,892	2,049
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	2,888	2,052
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	2,882	2,055
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	2,876	2,058
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	2,868	2,061
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	2,863	2,063
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	2,861	2,065
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	2,854	2,067
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	2,842	2,068
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	2,825	2,065
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	2,799	2,057
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	2,787	2,048

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.

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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