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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Congo - Kinshasa	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	51,181	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	52,782	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	54,453	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	56,170	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	57,860	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	59,599	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	61,474	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	63,479	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	65,590	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	67,800	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	70,114	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	72,550	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	75,138	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	77,792	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	80,534	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	83,368	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	86,229	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	89,193	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	92,209	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	95,232	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	98,320	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	101,499	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	104,767	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	108,171	3,570

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