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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	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	277	19,964	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	281	20,426	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	285	20,956	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,549	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	289	22,189	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	293	22,850	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	296	23,516	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	304	24,178	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	311	24,841	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	319	25,518	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	319	26,227	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	318	27,068	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	319	27,810	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	321	28,516	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	324	29,220	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	327	29,936	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	331	30,646	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	335	31,360	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	343	32,184	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	353	32,869	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	361	33,661	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	366	34,542	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	372	33,651	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	380	34,081	5,750

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.

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

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).