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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Belgium	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	10,227	387
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	10,252	390
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	10,288	393
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	10,334	396
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	10,377	398
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	10,422	401
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	10,480	404
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	10,549	405
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	10,627	406
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	10,711	409
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	10,797	412
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	10,897	414
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	11,039	416
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	11,108	420
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	11,160	426
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	11,210	435
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	11,275	445
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	11,332	455
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	11,376	468
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	11,429	485
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	11,491	504
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	11,546	516
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	11,594	518
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	11,695	530

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

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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