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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Congo - Kinshasa	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	51,181	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	52,782	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	54,453	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	56,170	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	57,860	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	59,599	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	61,474	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	63,479	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	65,590	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	67,800	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	70,114	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	72,550	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	75,138	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	77,792	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	80,534	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	83,368	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	86,229	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	89,193	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	92,209	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	95,232	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	98,320	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	101,499	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	104,767	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	108,171	1,330

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, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.