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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Burkina Faso	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	11,075	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	11,405	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	11,828	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	12,380	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	12,829	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	13,178	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	13,540	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	13,917	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	14,309	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	14,722	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	15,152	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	15,600	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	16,064	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	16,563	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	17,072	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	17,575	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	18,094	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	18,621	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	19,157	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	19,698	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	20,242	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	20,788	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	21,336	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	21,889	17,288

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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