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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Saudi Arabia	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	19,964	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	20,426	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	20,956	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	21,549	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	22,189	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	22,850	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	23,516	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	24,178	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	24,841	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	25,518	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	26,227	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	27,068	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	27,810	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	28,516	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	29,220	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	29,936	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	30,646	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	31,360	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	32,184	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	32,869	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	33,661	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	34,542	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	33,651	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	34,081	3,696

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.