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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Saudi Arabia	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	19,964	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	20,426	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	20,956	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,549	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	22,189	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	22,850	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	23,516	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	24,178	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	24,841	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	25,518	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	26,227	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	27,068	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	27,810	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	28,516	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	29,220	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	29,936	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	30,646	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	31,360	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	32,184	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	32,869	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	33,661	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	34,542	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	33,651	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	34,081	2,787

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 Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.