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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	Denmark	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	5,322	3,811	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	5,339	3,901	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	5,358	3,919	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	5,377	3,923	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	5,391	3,940	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	5,404	3,975	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	5,420	3,991	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	5,438	3,993	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	5,461	3,990	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	5,494	3,987	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	5,524	3,985	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	5,548	3,983	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	5,571	3,980	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	5,592	3,977	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	5,614	3,973	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	5,644	3,968	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	5,683	3,963	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	5,730	3,957	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	5,766	3,951	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	5,795	3,944	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	5,818	3,937	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	5,831	3,929	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	5,855	3,921	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	5,907	3,876	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.

All data sources

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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 Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.