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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Albania	Benin
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	3,085	6,461
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	3,065	6,677
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	3,047	6,902
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	3,038	7,130
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	3,026	7,360
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	3,014	7,589
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	2,998	7,838
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	2,979	8,089
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	2,957	8,335
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	2,934	8,603
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	2,915	8,884
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	2,900	9,179
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	2,892	9,486
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	2,888	9,805
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	2,882	10,135
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	2,876	10,480
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	2,868	10,842
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	2,863	11,220
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	2,861	11,613
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	2,854	12,018
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	2,842	12,370
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	2,825	12,725
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	2,799	13,081
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	2,787	13,439

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 Albania, Benin; the database as a whole is cited above.