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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date RussiaBosnia & HerzegovinaCongo - Kinshasa
147,2183,81151,181
146,6003,90152,782
145,9803,91954,453
145,3103,92356,170
144,6523,94057,860
144,0713,97559,599
143,5223,99161,474
143,0533,99363,479
142,8093,99065,590
142,7463,98767,800
142,7893,98570,114
142,8533,98372,550
142,9643,98075,138
143,2053,97777,792
143,5103,97380,534
146,0943,96883,368
146,4103,96386,229
146,6783,95789,193
146,8463,95192,209
146,8343,94495,232
146,7683,93798,320
146,4633,929101,499
145,8493,921104,767
146,6933,876108,171

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.