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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date MadagascarSaudi Arabia
15,25919,964
15,70720,426
16,16220,956
16,63121,549
17,11422,189
17,61022,850
18,12023,516
18,64124,178
19,17324,841
19,71725,518
20,27226,227
20,83727,068
21,41327,810
21,99928,516
22,59329,220
23,19629,936
23,80630,646
24,42331,360
25,04432,184
25,67132,869
26,30233,661
26,93634,542
27,57333,651
28,23734,081

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 Madagascar; the database as a whole is cited above.