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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Albania	Nepal
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	3,085	23,087
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	3,065	23,487
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	3,047	23,887
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	3,038	24,273
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	3,026	24,645
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	3,014	24,989
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	2,998	25,255
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	2,979	25,484
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	2,957	25,732
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	2,934	25,998
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	2,915	26,298
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	2,900	26,664
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	2,892	27,081
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	2,888	27,505
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	2,882	27,917
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	2,876	28,311
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	2,868	28,678
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	2,863	29,034
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	2,861	29,384
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	2,854	29,718
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	2,842	30,057
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	2,825	30,595
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	2,799	31,311
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	2,787	31,845

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, Nepal; the database as a whole is cited above.