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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cambodia	Congo - Kinshasa	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	12,122	51,181	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	12,317	52,782	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	12,504	54,453	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	12,691	56,170	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	12,881	57,860	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	13,076	59,599	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	13,276	61,474	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	13,461	63,479	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	13,630	65,590	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	13,808	67,800	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	13,990	70,114	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	14,162	72,550	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	14,322	75,138	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	14,480	77,792	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	14,637	80,534	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	14,793	83,368	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	14,994	86,229	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	15,238	89,193	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	15,480	92,209	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	15,717	95,232	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	15,944	98,320	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	16,149	101,499	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	16,338	104,767	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	16,514	108,171	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

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 Cambodia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.