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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	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	19,964	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	20,426	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	20,956	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,549	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	22,189	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	22,850	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	23,516	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	24,178	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	24,841	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	25,518	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	26,227	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	27,068	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	27,810	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	28,516	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	29,220	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	29,936	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	30,646	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	31,360	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	32,184	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	32,869	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	33,661	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	34,542	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	33,651	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	34,081	7,432

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.

All data sources

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 Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.