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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	3,228

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 Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.