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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Russia	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	147,218	433
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	146,600	438
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	145,980	443
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	145,310	448
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	144,652	454
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	144,071	460
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	143,522	467
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	143,053	474
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	142,809	482
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	142,746	491
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	142,789	500
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	142,853	509
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	142,964	521
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	143,205	533
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	143,510	547
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	146,094	560
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	146,410	571
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	146,678	586
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	146,846	599
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	146,834	610
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	146,768	623
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	146,463	633
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	145,849	643
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	146,693	651

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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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 Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.