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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	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 Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.