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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	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	2,348	138
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	2,403	141
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	2,457	144
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	2,510	147
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	2,562	151
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	2,613	154
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	2,663	158
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	2,713	161
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	2,764	165
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	2,816	168
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	2,871	172
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	2,928	176
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	2,986	180
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	3,047	183
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	3,110	187
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	3,174	190
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	3,240	194
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	3,307	198
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	3,375	201
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	3,444	204
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	3,512	208
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	3,582	212
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	3,651	216
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	3,696	220

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, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.