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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Burkina Faso	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	11,075	138
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	11,405	141
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	11,828	144
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	12,380	147
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	12,829	151
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	13,178	154
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	13,540	158
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	13,917	161
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	14,309	165
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	14,722	168
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	15,152	172
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	15,600	176
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	16,064	180
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	16,563	183
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	17,072	187
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	17,575	190
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	18,094	194
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	18,621	198
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	19,157	201
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	19,698	204
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	20,242	208
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	20,788	212
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	21,336	216
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	21,889	220

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, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.