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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date RussiaSudan
147,21826,168
146,60026,771
145,98027,387
145,31028,017
144,65228,662
144,07129,321
143,52229,996
143,05330,686
142,80931,393
142,74632,137
142,78933,078
142,85333,891
142,96434,568
143,20535,293
143,51036,093
146,09437,058
146,41038,165
146,67839,294
146,84640,512
146,83441,764
146,76842,952
146,46344,121
145,84945,290
146,69346,498

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 Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.