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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	Puerto Rico	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	70	3,800	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	71	3,811	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	71	3,819	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	72	3,824	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	72	3,826	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	72	3,827	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	72	3,822	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	72	3,805	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	72	3,783	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	73	3,761	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	73	3,741	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	73	3,722	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	73	3,679	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	73	3,636	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	73	3,589	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	73	3,534	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	74	3,473	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	74	3,411	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	74	3,352	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	74	3,295	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	75	3,268	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	75	3,247	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	76	3,232	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	76	3,228	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.

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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, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.