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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Belgium	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,227	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,252	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,288	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,334	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,377	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,422	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,480	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,549	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,627	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,711	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,797	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,897	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,039	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,108	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,160	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,210	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,275	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,332	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,376	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,429	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,491	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,546	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,594	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,695	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

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.