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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	São Tomé & Príncipe	Albania	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	138	3,085	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	141	3,065	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	144	3,047	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	147	3,038	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	151	3,026	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	154	3,014	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	158	2,998	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	161	2,979	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	165	2,957	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	168	2,934	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	172	2,915	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	176	2,900	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	180	2,892	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	183	2,888	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	187	2,882	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	190	2,876	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	194	2,868	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	198	2,863	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	201	2,861	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	204	2,854	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	208	2,842	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	212	2,825	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	216	2,799	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	220	2,787	146,693

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