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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	Iceland	Russia	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	277	147,218	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	281	146,600	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	285	145,980	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	288	145,310	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	289	144,652	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	293	144,071	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	296	143,522	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	304	143,053	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	311	142,809	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	319	142,746	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	319	142,789	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	318	142,853	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	319	142,964	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	321	143,205	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	324	143,510	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	327	146,094	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	331	146,410	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	335	146,678	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	343	146,846	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	353	146,834	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	361	146,768	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	366	146,463	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	372	145,849	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	380	146,693	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.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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