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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	Uzbekistan
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,964	24,701
Dec 31, 2000	274	20,426	25,042
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,956	25,372
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,549	25,696
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,189	25,992
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,850	26,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,516	26,540
Dec 31, 2006	281	24,178	26,812
Dec 31, 2007	282	24,841	27,081
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,518	27,347
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,227	27,609
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,068	27,869
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,810	28,132
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,516	28,398
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,220	28,666
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,936	28,934
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,646	29,205
Dec 31, 2016	291	31,360	29,480
Dec 31, 2017	292	32,184	29,756
Dec 31, 2018	293	32,869	30,031
Dec 31, 2019	294	33,661	30,305
Dec 31, 2020	294	34,542	30,576
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,651	30,843
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,081	31,337

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