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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Saudi Arabia	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	433	19,964	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	438	20,426	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	443	20,956	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	448	21,549	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	454	22,189	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	460	22,850	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	467	23,516	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	474	24,178	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	482	24,841	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	491	25,518	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	500	26,227	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	509	27,068	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	521	27,810	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	533	28,516	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	547	29,220	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	560	29,936	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	571	30,646	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	586	31,360	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	599	32,184	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	610	32,869	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	623	33,661	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	633	34,542	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	643	33,651	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	651	34,081	17,288

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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