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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Oman	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	2,348	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	2,403	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	2,457	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	2,510	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	2,562	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	2,613	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	2,663	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	2,713	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	2,764	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	2,816	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	2,871	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	2,928	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	2,986	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	3,047	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	3,110	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	3,174	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	3,240	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	3,307	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	3,375	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	3,444	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	3,512	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	3,582	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	3,651	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	3,696	18,494

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