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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Central African Republic	Saudi Arabia	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	3,889	19,964	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	3,980	20,426	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	4,054	20,956	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	4,128	21,549	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	4,215	22,189	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	4,289	22,850	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	4,363	23,516	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	4,449	24,178	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	4,544	24,841	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	4,641	25,518	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	4,742	26,227	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	4,845	27,068	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	4,950	27,810	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	5,057	28,516	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	5,167	29,220	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	5,278	29,936	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	5,392	30,646	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	5,507	31,360	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	5,625	32,184	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	5,745	32,869	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	5,874	33,661	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	6,025	34,542	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	6,154	33,651	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	6,291	34,081	3,876

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.