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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Switzerland	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	277	7,258	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	281	7,296	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	285	7,332	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	288	7,384	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	289	7,438	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	293	7,488	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	296	7,532	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	304	7,579	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	311	7,647	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	319	7,738	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	319	7,825	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	318	7,884	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	319	7,959	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	321	8,044	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	324	8,137	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,237	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	331	8,332	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	335	8,423	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	343	8,502	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	353	8,565	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	361	8,626	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	366	8,689	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	372	8,756	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	380	8,834	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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