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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Oman	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	2,348	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	2,403	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	2,457	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	2,510	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	2,562	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	2,613	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	2,663	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	2,713	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	2,764	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	2,816	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	2,871	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	2,928	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	2,986	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	3,047	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	3,110	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	3,174	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	3,240	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	3,307	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	3,375	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	3,444	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	3,512	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	3,582	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	3,651	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	3,696	1,883

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