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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Africa	Oman	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	46,257	2,348	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	46,958	2,403	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	47,820	2,457	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	48,480	2,510	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	48,951	2,562	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	49,478	2,613	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	50,054	2,663	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	50,667	2,713	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	51,339	2,764	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	52,077	2,816	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	52,862	2,871	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	53,682	2,928	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	54,518	2,986	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	55,356	3,047	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	56,215	3,110	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	57,075	3,174	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	57,947	3,240	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	58,830	3,307	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	59,715	3,375	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	60,595	3,444	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	61,469	3,512	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	62,355	3,582	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	62,900	3,651	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	63,382	3,696	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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.