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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	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	70	19,964	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	71	20,426	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	71	20,956	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	72	21,549	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	72	22,189	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	72	22,850	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	72	23,516	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	72	24,178	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	72	24,841	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	73	25,518	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	73	26,227	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	73	27,068	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	73	27,810	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	73	28,516	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	73	29,220	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	73	29,936	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	74	30,646	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	74	31,360	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	74	32,184	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	74	32,869	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	75	33,661	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	75	34,542	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	76	33,651	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	76	34,081	31,058

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, Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.