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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	New Zealand	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	3,890	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	3,912	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	3,947	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	4,018	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	4,094	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	4,151	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	4,198	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	4,248	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	4,287	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	4,323	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	4,370	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	4,416	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	4,446	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	4,471	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	4,516	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	4,597	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	4,695	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	4,800	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	4,897	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	4,982	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	5,074	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	5,159	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	5,188	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	5,245	31,058

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

New Zealand

1870-1939: K. Rankin, "New Zealand's Gross National Product: 1859-1939, Review of Income and Wealth, March 1992, pp. 60-1., 1870 amended to include indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita)
1939-50: C. Clark, The Conditions of Economic Progress, third edition, Macmillan, London, 1957, pp. 171-2

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