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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Oman	Hong Kong SAR China
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	2,348	6,587
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	2,403	6,646
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	2,457	6,695
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	2,510	6,725
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	2,562	6,712
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	2,613	6,765
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	2,663	6,794
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	2,713	6,838
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	2,764	6,897
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	2,816	6,938
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	2,871	6,953
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	2,928	7,004
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	2,986	7,052
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	3,047	7,130
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	3,110	7,159
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	3,174	7,209
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	3,240	7,271
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	3,307	7,316
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	3,375	7,372
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	3,444	7,432
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	3,512	7,487
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	3,582	7,460
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	3,651	7,392
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	3,696	7,387

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 Oman, Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.