The Long Term Economic Prospects of the former Communist Countries of Eastern Europe

Country (or territory) & Population in Millions	2015	2020	2025	2030	2035	2040	2050
Albania (3.20)	12,405	18,740	22,717	27,267	32,403	38,123	50,601
Armenia (2.98)	9,301	10,561	12,950	15,721	18,897	22,488	30,538
Azerbaijan (9.63)	62,199	84,470	105,455	130,354	159,533	193,306	272,132
Belarus ( 9.31)	60,530	82,336	106,586	136,613	173,363	217,816	329,684
Bosnia and Herzegovina (3.82)	16,638	23,296	27,830	32,919	38,551	44,700	57,621
Bulgaria (7.20)	51,551	64,948	78,249	93,341	110,242	128,909	169,005
China (138.40)	11,211,928	16,157,105	21,499,182	28,324,624	36,947,203	47,716,169	76,309,156
Croatia (4.27)	48,874	61,290	70,698	80,744	91,304	102,220	122,847
Cyprus (0.86)	19,812	24,513	28,207	32,135	36,250	40,484	48,417
Czech Republic (10.54)	180,789	203,244	241,338	283,738	330,281	380,642	484,761
Estonia (1.31)	23,113	32,408	39,444	47,534	56,715	66,997	89,644
Georgia (3.72)	13,758	20,823	26,483	33,347	41,574	51,317	74,969
Greece (10.82)	207,148	275,130	313,754	354,260	396,033	438,337	514,877
Hungary ((9.85)	126,691	165,376	192,591	222,070	253,521	286,553	351,021
Italy (60.79)	1,842,835	2,172,828	2,517,911	2,888,943	3,281,807	3,691,080	4,476,903
Japan (126.89)	4,210,363	4,933,497	5,609,672	6,315,442	7,039,558	7,768,794	9,072,208
Kazakhstan (17.50)	203,140	290,635	370,357	467,281	583,727	721,951	1,058,883
Kosovo (1.83)	6,466	8,899	11,117	13,749	16,837	20,414	28,774
Kyrgyzstan (5.92)	7,368	10,892	13,840	17,413	21,689	26,748	39,006
Latvia (1.98)	28,362	39,749	47,993	57,373	67,907	79,577	104,779
Lithuania (2.90)	42,642	60,382	73,145	87,727	104,175	122,477	162,327
Macedonia (2.07)	10,147	14,579	17,497	20,793	24,464	28,499	37,079
Malta (0.43)	9,508	12,305	14,435	16,765	19,279	21,951	27,283
Moldova (3.56)	6,140	9,191	11,505	14,258	17,496	21,255	30,080
Mongolia (3.02)	12,455	18,057	26,640	38,915	56,282	80,593	158,444
Montenegro (0.62)	4,239	5,467	6,470	7,582	8,796	10,103	12,782
Poland (38.50)	491,239	672,857	810,891	967,578	1,143,102	1,337,058	1,753,979
Portugal (10.50)	201,036	242,192	275,531	310,357	346,123	382,177	446,762
Romania (19.95)	189,747	270,460	321,332	377,995	440,247	507,659	647,243
Russia (146.27)	2,381.192	3,247.634	3,910.134	4,661.223	5,501.530	6,428.854	8,417.379
Serbia (7.14)	40,665	57,191	68,997	82,417	97,472	114,132	150,041
Slovakia (5.42)	87,528	116,157	140,540	168,361	199,691	234,499	310,061
Slovenia (2.07)	43,021	52,865	61,182	70,106	79,537	89,339	108,078
Tajikistan (8.36)	8,533	12,785	16,995	22,366	29,145	37,600	60,006
Turkey (77.80)	752,510	1,011,638	1,280,069	1,603,707	1,989,263	2,443,013	3,532,939
Turkmenistan (4.76)	44,663	84,740	118,983	165,409	227,673	310,264	552,474
Ukraine (42.87)	85,440	134,731	165,584	201,490	242,753	289,561	395,036
United Kingdom (64.80)	2,853,357	3,730,583	4,399,293	5,136,566	5,937,971	6,796,257	8,536,434
United States (322.20)	18,124,731	22,488,616	26,591,660	31,132,357	36,087,246	41,415,421	52,302,423
Uzbekistan (31.00)	68,190	113,287	148,972	193,963	250,036	319,122	498,431

Yellow: = Former Soviet Republics

Green: = Former Yugoslav Republics

Sky Blue: = Former Eastern European Communist Countries now in the EU.

The economies of countries from the former Soviet Union (USSR) are projected to be better performing than those of former Eastern European countries and countries from the ex-Yugoslavia, apparently because they did not allow the complete destruction of their industrial bases or because they reversed the deindustrialization of the 1990s.   

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