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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date DominicaOmanSaudi Arabia
702,34819,964
712,40320,426
712,45720,956
722,51021,549
722,56222,189
722,61322,850
722,66323,516
722,71324,178
722,76424,841
732,81625,518
732,87126,227
732,92827,068
732,98627,810
733,04728,516
733,11029,220
733,17429,936
743,24030,646
743,30731,360
743,37532,184
743,44432,869
753,51233,661
753,58234,542
763,65133,651
763,69634,081

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 Dominica, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.