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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Estonia	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	1,378	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	1,400	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	1,391	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	1,382	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	1,374	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	1,365	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	1,357	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	1,349	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	1,341	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	1,337	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	1,334	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	1,332	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	1,328	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	1,324	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	1,319	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	1,314	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	1,312	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	1,314	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	1,314	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	1,318	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	1,323	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	1,327	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	1,329	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	1,330	34,081

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.