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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	Ecuador	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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.