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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	Saudi Arabia	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,964	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	274	20,426	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,956	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,549	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,189	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,850	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,516	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	281	24,178	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	282	24,841	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,518	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,227	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,068	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,810	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,516	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,220	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,936	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,646	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	291	31,360	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	292	32,184	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	293	32,869	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	33,661	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	294	34,542	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,651	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,081	1,883

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

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, Latvia; the database as a whole is cited above.