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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	3,811	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	3,901	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	3,919	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	3,923	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	3,940	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	3,975	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	3,991	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	3,993	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	3,990	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	3,987	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	3,985	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	3,983	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	3,980	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	3,977	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	3,973	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	3,968	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	3,963	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	3,957	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	3,951	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	3,944	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	3,937	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	3,929	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	3,921	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	3,876	1,330

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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