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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	Moldova	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	4,244	433
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	4,199	438
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	4,154	443
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	4,108	448
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	4,059	454
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	4,013	460
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	3,966	467
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	3,919	474
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	3,873	482
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	3,829	491
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	3,788	500
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	3,748	509
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	3,709	521
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	3,671	533
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	3,633	547
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	3,595	560
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	3,558	571
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	3,522	586
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	3,485	599
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	3,448	610
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	3,412	623
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	3,376	633
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	3,339	643
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	3,570	651

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