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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	Malaysia	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,132	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,695	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,291	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	276	23,874	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,437	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	279	24,993	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,543	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,086	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,620	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,161	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	285	27,715	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	286	28,268	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	287	28,750	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	29,163	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,568	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,977	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,387	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	291	30,782	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	292	31,164	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	293	31,539	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	294	31,903	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	294	32,257	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	295	32,603	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	32,956	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

Malaysia

1900-1939: Nazrin Shah, S. (2017). Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts, Oxford University Press

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.