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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mali	Albania	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	3,085	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	3,065	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	3,047	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	3,038	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	3,026	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	3,014	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	2,998	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	2,979	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	2,957	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	2,934	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	2,915	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	2,900	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	2,892	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	2,888	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	2,882	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	2,876	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	2,868	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	2,863	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	2,861	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	2,854	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	2,842	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	2,825	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	2,799	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	2,787	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 Mali, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.