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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	Montenegro	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	623	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	623	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	623	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	622	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	621	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	621	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	621	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	620	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	620	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	621	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	622	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	623	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	622	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	622	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	622	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	621	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	620	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	618	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	616	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	614	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	613	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	612	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	611	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	610	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

Montenegro

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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