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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	Saudi Arabia	Romania	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	277	19,964	22,414	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	281	20,426	22,262	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	285	20,956	22,106	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,549	21,931	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	289	22,189	21,828	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	293	22,850	21,704	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	296	23,516	21,571	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	304	24,178	21,443	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	311	24,841	21,129	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	319	25,518	20,779	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	319	26,227	20,607	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	318	27,068	20,485	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	319	27,810	20,385	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	321	28,516	20,296	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	324	29,220	20,224	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	327	29,936	20,151	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	331	30,646	20,055	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	335	31,360	19,938	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	343	32,184	19,823	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	353	32,869	19,713	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	361	33,661	19,622	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	366	34,542	19,496	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	372	33,651	19,351	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	380	34,081	19,266	46,498

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.

All data sources

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.

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.