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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 - KinshasaGermany
147,21851,18181,439
146,60052,78281,474
145,98054,45381,534
145,31056,17081,595
144,65257,86081,566
144,07159,59981,473
143,52261,47481,354
143,05363,47981,190
142,80965,59081,009
142,74667,80080,781
142,78970,11480,500
142,85372,55080,301
142,96475,13880,292
143,20577,79280,443
143,51080,53480,663
146,09483,36881,000
146,41086,22981,704
146,67889,19382,366
146,84692,20982,674
146,83495,23282,923
146,76898,32083,110
146,463101,49983,178
145,849104,76783,213
146,693108,17183,811

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.

Germany

  • 1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
  • 1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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