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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 RussiaCongo - KinshasaBosnia & Herzegovina
147,21851,1813,811
146,60052,7823,901
145,98054,4533,919
145,31056,1703,923
144,65257,8603,940
144,07159,5993,975
143,52261,4743,991
143,05363,4793,993
142,80965,5903,990
142,74667,8003,987
142,78970,1143,985
142,85372,5503,983
142,96475,1383,980
143,20577,7923,977
143,51080,5343,973
146,09483,3683,968
146,41086,2293,963
146,67889,1933,957
146,84692,2093,951
146,83495,2323,944
146,76898,3203,937
146,463101,4993,929
145,849104,7673,921
146,693108,1713,876

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.