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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	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	627
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	659
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	691
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	724
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	757
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	850
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	2,559

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.