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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	Saudi Arabia	United Arab Emirates
Dec 31, 1999	70	19,964	3,101
Dec 31, 2000	71	20,426	3,284
Dec 31, 2001	71	20,956	3,458
Dec 31, 2002	72	21,549	3,613
Dec 31, 2003	72	22,189	3,754
Dec 31, 2004	72	22,850	3,882
Dec 31, 2005	72	23,516	4,000
Dec 31, 2006	72	24,178	4,532
Dec 31, 2007	72	24,841	5,623
Dec 31, 2008	73	25,518	7,277
Dec 31, 2009	73	26,227	8,164
Dec 31, 2010	73	27,068	8,152
Dec 31, 2011	73	27,810	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	73	28,516	8,747
Dec 31, 2013	73	29,220	9,077
Dec 31, 2014	73	29,936	9,321
Dec 31, 2015	74	30,646	9,461
Dec 31, 2016	74	31,360	9,587
Dec 31, 2017	74	32,184	9,699
Dec 31, 2018	74	32,869	9,796
Dec 31, 2019	75	33,661	9,879
Dec 31, 2020	75	34,542	9,953
Dec 31, 2021	76	33,651	10,018
Dec 31, 2022	76	34,081	10,099

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, United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.