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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	Eswatini
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,964	1,033
Dec 31, 2000	274	20,426	1,032
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,956	1,030
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,549	1,028
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,189	1,026
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,850	1,025
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,516	1,023
Dec 31, 2006	281	24,178	1,021
Dec 31, 2007	282	24,841	1,019
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,518	1,017
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,227	1,017
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,068	1,019
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,810	1,024
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,516	1,032
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,220	1,041
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,936	1,051
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,646	1,060
Dec 31, 2016	291	31,360	1,069
Dec 31, 2017	292	32,184	1,078
Dec 31, 2018	293	32,869	1,087
Dec 31, 2019	294	33,661	1,096
Dec 31, 2020	294	34,542	1,106
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,651	1,117
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,081	1,126

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