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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Burkina Faso	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	11,075	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	11,405	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	11,828	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	12,380	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	12,829	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	13,178	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	13,540	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	13,917	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	14,309	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	14,722	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	15,152	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	15,600	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	16,064	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	16,563	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	17,072	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	17,575	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	18,094	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	18,621	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	19,157	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	19,698	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	20,242	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	20,788	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	21,336	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	21,889	3,696

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 Burkina Faso, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.