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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Germany	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	81,439	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	81,474	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	81,534	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	81,595	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	81,566	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	81,473	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	81,354	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	81,190	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	81,009	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	80,781	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	80,500	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	80,301	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	80,292	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	80,443	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	80,663	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	81,000	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	81,704	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	82,366	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	82,674	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	82,923	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	83,110	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	83,178	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	83,213	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	83,811	108,171

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.