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

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.