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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Yemen	Burkina Faso	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	16,728	11,075	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	17,236	11,405	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	17,762	11,828	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	18,310	12,380	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	18,855	12,829	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	19,410	13,178	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	20,000	13,540	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	20,611	13,917	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	21,236	14,309	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	21,878	14,722	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	22,533	15,152	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	23,195	15,600	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	23,880	16,064	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	24,594	16,563	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	25,311	17,072	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	26,020	17,575	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	26,698	18,094	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	27,347	18,621	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	27,985	19,157	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	28,608	19,698	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	29,216	20,242	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	29,811	20,788	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	30,399	21,336	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	31,058	21,889	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 Yemen, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.