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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Congo - Kinshasa	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	51,181	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	52,782	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	54,453	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	56,170	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	57,860	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	59,599	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	61,474	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	63,479	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	65,590	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	67,800	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	70,114	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	72,550	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	75,138	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	77,792	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	80,534	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	83,368	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	86,229	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	89,193	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	92,209	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	95,232	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	98,320	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	101,499	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	104,767	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	108,171	21,889

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.