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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	Oman	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	2,348	22,414	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	2,403	22,262	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	2,457	22,106	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	2,510	21,931	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	2,562	21,828	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	2,613	21,704	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	2,663	21,571	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	2,713	21,443	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	2,764	21,129	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	2,816	20,779	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	2,871	20,607	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	2,928	20,485	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	2,986	20,385	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	3,047	20,296	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	3,110	20,224	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	3,174	20,151	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	3,240	20,055	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	3,307	19,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	3,375	19,823	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	3,444	19,713	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	3,512	19,622	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	3,582	19,496	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	3,651	19,351	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	3,696	19,266	108,171

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.

All data sources

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Oman, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.