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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	Sudan	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	26,168	387
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	26,771	390
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	27,387	393
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	28,017	396
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	28,662	398
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	29,321	401
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	29,996	404
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	30,686	405
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	31,393	406
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	32,137	409
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	33,078	412
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	33,891	414
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	34,568	416
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	35,293	420
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	36,093	426
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	37,058	435
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	38,165	445
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	39,294	455
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	40,512	468
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	41,764	485
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	42,952	504
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	44,121	516
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	45,290	518
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	46,498	530

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, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.