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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	Malaysia
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,964	22,132
Dec 31, 2000	274	20,426	22,695
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,956	23,291
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,549	23,874
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,189	24,437
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,850	24,993
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,516	25,543
Dec 31, 2006	281	24,178	26,086
Dec 31, 2007	282	24,841	26,620
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,518	27,161
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,227	27,715
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,068	28,268
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,810	28,750
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,516	29,163
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,220	29,568
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,936	29,977
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,646	30,387
Dec 31, 2016	291	31,360	30,782
Dec 31, 2017	292	32,184	31,164
Dec 31, 2018	293	32,869	31,539
Dec 31, 2019	294	33,661	31,903
Dec 31, 2020	294	34,542	32,257
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,651	32,603
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,081	32,956

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

Malaysia

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

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.