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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	Dominica	Burkina Faso	Albania	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	70	11,075	3,085	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	71	11,405	3,065	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	71	11,828	3,047	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	72	12,380	3,038	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	72	12,829	3,026	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	72	13,178	3,014	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	72	13,540	2,998	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	72	13,917	2,979	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	72	14,309	2,957	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	73	14,722	2,934	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	73	15,152	2,915	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	73	15,600	2,900	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	73	16,064	2,892	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	73	16,563	2,888	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	73	17,072	2,882	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	73	17,575	2,876	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	74	18,094	2,868	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	74	18,621	2,863	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	74	19,157	2,861	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	74	19,698	2,854	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	75	20,242	2,842	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	75	20,788	2,825	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	76	21,336	2,799	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	76	21,889	2,787	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

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 Dominica, Burkina Faso, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.