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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Laos	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	5,286	387
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	5,397	390
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	5,499	393
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	5,578	396
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	5,654	398
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	5,746	401
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	5,836	404
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	5,931	405
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	6,035	406
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	6,145	409
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	6,257	412
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	6,368	414
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	6,477	416
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	6,586	420
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	6,695	426
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	6,804	435
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	6,912	445
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	7,019	455
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	7,127	468
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	7,234	485
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	7,343	504
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	7,452	516
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	7,560	518
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	7,666	530

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 Laos, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.