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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	United Arab Emirates
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	3,101
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	3,284
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	3,458
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	3,613
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	3,754
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	3,882
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	4,000
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	4,532
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	5,623
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	7,277
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	8,164
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	8,152
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	8,747
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	9,077
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	9,321
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	9,461
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	9,587
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	9,699
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	9,796
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	9,879
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	9,953
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	10,018
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	10,099

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 United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.