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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Saudi Arabia	Netherlands
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,964	15,817
Dec 31, 2000	274	20,426	15,932
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,956	16,052
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,549	16,155
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,189	16,231
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,850	16,288
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,516	16,326
Dec 31, 2006	281	24,178	16,352
Dec 31, 2007	282	24,841	16,388
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,518	16,452
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,227	16,536
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,068	16,621
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,810	16,699
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,516	16,761
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,220	16,810
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,936	16,871
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,646	16,946
Dec 31, 2016	291	31,360	17,036
Dec 31, 2017	292	32,184	17,137
Dec 31, 2018	293	32,869	17,238
Dec 31, 2019	294	33,661	17,351
Dec 31, 2020	294	34,542	17,448
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,651	17,539
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,081	17,709

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

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

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