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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Congo - Kinshasa	Bangladesh
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	51,181	132,907
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	52,782	135,207
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	54,453	137,420
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	56,170	139,573
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	57,860	141,650
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	59,599	143,644
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	61,474	145,546
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	63,479	147,376
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	65,590	149,047
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	67,800	150,562
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	70,114	152,189
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	72,550	153,927
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	75,138	155,634
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	77,792	157,326
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	80,534	158,999
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	83,368	160,650
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	86,229	162,273
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	89,193	163,938
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	92,209	165,655
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	95,232	167,358
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	98,320	169,045
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	101,499	170,709
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	104,767	172,354
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	108,171	174,217

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.

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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